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The Gal Vihara (Sinhala: ගල් විහාරය, lit. 'rock monastery'), and known originally as the Uttararama (Sinhala: උත්තරාරාමය, lit. 'the great monastery'), is a rock temple of the Buddha situated in the ancient city Polonnaruwa, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Polonnaruwa, now present-day Polonnaruwa, in North Central Province, Sri Lanka.
Buddha in parinirvana, Gandhara art, 2nd or 3rd century Buddha entering nirvana, Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam, 17th century AD. A reclining Buddha is an image that represents Buddha lying down and is a major iconographic theme in Buddhist art.
Rock-cut Reclining Buddha, Gal Vihara, Sri Lanka, 12th century. In Sri Lanka, artists often showed the Buddha alive and awake, [124] but elsewhere the moment after death is usually represented. Sometimes the body is already wrapped in a shroud, but usually the face, as if asleep, is turned towards the viewer.
An image of the Buddha in samadhi from Gal Vihara, Sri Lanka Statue of a meditating Shiva, Rishikesh. Samādhi (Pali and Sanskrit: समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness.
The Gal vihara, Polonnaruwa and the cave temples of Dambulla were initially constructed as cave temples, later on, the cave temples were converted to image houses. Dagobas or Stupas [ edit ]
Nawa Polonnaru Gal Viharaya – Kanumuldeniye Sri Dharmashoka Thero, the construction of replicas of all the statues of the Gal Viharaya, Polonnaruwa that started in 1982, has now been completed. The opening of the Samadhi Buddha statue coincides with the 2600 Sambuddhatwa Jayanthi celebrations.
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