{"id":44008,"date":"2015-05-20T07:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=44008"},"modified":"2015-05-20T00:31:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T07:31:20","slug":"royal-asiatic-society-monthly-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/05\/20\/royal-asiatic-society-monthly-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Asiatic Society Monthly Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Monthly Public Lecture on<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Buddha&#8217;s Sri Lankan Visits on Astro-Archeological Point of View\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">by Dr. Kavan Ratnatunga, Astrophysicist, Post Graduate Institute of Archaeology<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">on Monday 25<sup>th<\/sup> May 2015\u00a0at\u00a05.00 p.m.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium,No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo\u00a007.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">All are welcome.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The description of the event on the battle between the Nagas, Mahodara and Culodara matches the Total Solar Eclipse on BCE 481 April 19 at 8:30 AM. That event considered at the time as a miracle has been attributed by monks who wrote the 4<sup>th<\/sup> \/ 5<sup>th<\/sup> century CE chronicles of Lanka as the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0visit of the Buddha to Lanka, who in the words in the Dipavamsa was seen as the Moon.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Monthly Public Lecture on The Buddha&#8217;s Sri Lankan Visits on Astro-Archeological Point of View\u201d by Dr. Kavan Ratnatunga, Astrophysicist, Post Graduate Institute of Archaeology on Monday 25th May 2015\u00a0at\u00a05.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium,No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo\u00a007. All are welcome. The description of the event on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}