{"id":85106,"date":"2019-01-24T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T23:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85106"},"modified":"2019-01-24T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T23:17:23","slug":"public-lecture-on-the-illustrated-mahava%e1%b9%83sa-paintings-from-a-12th-century-myanmar-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/01\/24\/public-lecture-on-the-illustrated-mahava%e1%b9%83sa-paintings-from-a-12th-century-myanmar-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Lecture on  \u201cThe Illustrated Mah\u0101va\u1e43sa: Paintings from a 12th Century Myanmar Temple\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Public\u00a0Lecture<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Illustrated\u00a0<em>Mah\u0101va\u1e43sa<\/em>: Paintings from a 12<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>Century Myanmar Temple\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0by<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dr. Hema Goonatilake<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>On<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Monday 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0January 2019 at 5.00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">at the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ALL ARE WELCOME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rasof-srilanka01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rasof-srilanka01.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rasof-srilanka01-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Myanmar got her independence, the first country she wanted to have foreign relations was Sri Lanka. The reason for this friendship from Myanmar was a 1000-year-old relationship with Sri Lanka as had cultivated several other countries in South East Asia. This relationship not only introduced Buddhism from Sri Lanka to these countries but also the art of historical writings. All the Chronicles of South East Asia are modelled after the\u00a0<em>Mah\u0101va\u1e43sa<\/em>\u00a0and incorporates parts of the\u00a0<em>Mah\u0101va\u1e43sa<\/em>. Consequently, heroes of the\u00a0<em>Mah\u0101va\u1e43sa<\/em>\u00a0like Dutu Gemunu are hero figures in the region. Rajakumar the grandson of the founder of the Pagan Empire and the builder of the 12<sup>th<\/sup>century Myankabau temple painted on the temple walls major events, as recorded in the\u00a0<em>Mah\u0101va\u1e43sa<\/em>. The present illustrated lecture depicts these paintings and is a result of 10 years research on South East Asia by the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) Public\u00a0Lecture The Illustrated\u00a0Mah\u0101va\u1e43sa: Paintings from a 12th\u00a0Century Myanmar Temple\u201d \u00a0by Dr. Hema Goonatilake \u00a0On Monday 28th\u00a0January 2019 at 5.00 p.m. at the\u00a0 Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 ALL ARE WELCOME When Myanmar got her independence, the first country she wanted to have foreign [&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-85106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85106","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=85106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}