Place Institution Buddhist traditions
Gadaladeniya Vihara
ガダラデニヤ寺院 ja
Ancient Buddhist temple in Pilimathalawa, Sri Lanka
- Dated from 1334 CE
- Also called Saddharmatilaka Vihara, Dharma Kirthi Viharaya, Gadaladeniya Vihara
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Figures
Associated figures
Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.
What this means
Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.
- Bhuvanaikabahu IV of Gampola ↗Named as founder
king of Gampola
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 1334 CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Gadaladeniya Vihara, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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2.8 km awayLankatilaka Vihara
Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka -
4.6 km awayEmbekka Devalaya
A Sinhalese indigenous deity shrine in Kandy District, Sri Lanka -
10 km awayTemple of the Tooth
Buddhist temple housing the relic of the tooth of Buddha -
26 km awayMatale Muthumariyamman Temple
Hindu temple in Sri Lanka -
28 km awayAluvihare Rock Temple
Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka -
33 km awayIbbagala Raja Maha Vihara
Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple -
34 km awayRidi Viharaya
2nd-century BCE Theravada Buddhist temple -
48 km awayMahiyangana Raja Maha Vihara
ancient Buddhist temple in Mahiyangana, Sri Lanka
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
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Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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