Sri Lanka: Revision history

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31 July 2026

29 July 2026

  • curprev 05:2805:28, 29 July 2026 Lajos talk contribs 23,588 bytes +23,588 Created page with "{{Provisional Entry}} Sri Lanka, known as Ceylon until 1972, occupies a singular place in the history of Buddhism: the island's ''Mahāvaṃsa'' chronicle presents it as a dhammadīpa, an "island of the Dharma," specially chosen to preserve the Buddha's teaching, and its Theravāda saṅgha claims the world's longest continuous monastic lineage. This self-understanding, forged over more than two millennia of kingship, colonization, and revival, has made Buddhism insepara..."