Ananda Viharaya [Colombo 10]
Ananda Viharaya is the Shrine Room Of Ananda College, Colombo 10. Classes get turns for the morning 'Mal Poojawa' (paying homage to the Buddha) at the College Shrine, which is always an inspiring experience in a school whose motto is Appamado Amathapadan, a stanza from the Dhammapada. The Shrine is the most important and spiritually significant edifice in the college compound and perhaps the best known one to the outside world.
Ask anyone even with no connection to Ananda and the image he or she would conjure would invariably include the hallowed shrine, part of which can be seen from the road. It is by no small means that the Ananda Vihara has become the third most venerated Buddhist shrine in the country according to the Asia Times magazine. Its 'Koth Kerella' or the Vihara Pinnacle which can be spotted from all directions throughout surrounding environs signifies the dissipation of knowledge and wisdom. Today, the shrine room has become indispensably and irrevocably intertwined with the identity of Ananda College.
Ask anyone even with no connection to Ananda and the image he or she would conjure would invariably include the hallowed shrine, part of which can be seen from the road. It is by no small means that the Ananda Vihara has become the third most venerated Buddhist shrine in the country according to the Asia Times magazine. Its 'Koth Kerella' or the Vihara Pinnacle which can be spotted from all directions throughout surrounding environs signifies the dissipation of knowledge and wisdom. Today, the shrine room has become indispensably and irrevocably intertwined with the identity of Ananda College.