In the aftermath of historic Kandy Esala Perahera, Viharadhipathi of Rangiri Dambulu Rajamaha Vihare Ven. Godagama Mangala Thera speaks about its importance in terms of Sinhala Buddhist culture. He ...

The Kandy annual Esala procession is scheduled to commence today with the first Kumbal Perahera. The first of the five Kumbal processions will begin parading from the Sri Dalada Maligawa at 7.10 p.m.

The former Diyawadana Nilame Neeranjan Wijayaratne who held office for twenty years and administered the Sri Dalada Maligawa for thirty years, and ten by his father Dr.Nissanka Wijayaratne said that ...

A special extensive Dengue control programme has been launched in Kandy ahead of the Esala Perahera with the first Perahera due to get underway today. A surveillance programme was carried out from ...

There will be no advertising along the route of the Kandy Esala Perahera this year, said Diyawadana Nilame Pradeep Nilanga Dela while addressing the first meeting in regard to the perahera. He said ...

The Kandy Esala Perahera parades the streets of the Hill Capital to coincide with the eighth full moon poya of the year – the Esala Poya – in July/August. The change of date each year is because the ...

Starting the Kandy Esala Festival, the first Kumbal Perahera will take to the streets today (21). The Kumbal Perahara is scheduled to start at 7.10 pm from Sri Dalada Maligawa and will parade along ...

A “perpetual fire-laughing motion among the slow shuffle of elephants”: this is what D.H. Lawrence once said about Sri Lanka’s Esala Perahera, the nation’s biggest and one of the world’s oldest ...

According to legend, a tooth, supposedly cribbed from the Buddha’s funeral pyre, wound up in Sri Lanka in the fourth century CE when it was smuggled in by Princess Hemamala and Prince Dantha. The ...