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    The situation changed in 1956, when Sinhala was adopted as the language in which education was carried out. Works of the late 20th century in Sinhala tended to return to Sinhalese religious roots though many assumed a political flavor in light of the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict in Sri Lanka. *\ Famous Writers with Links to Sri Lanka
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    Asiff Hussein, a Sri Lanka journalist and writer, wrote: The Sinhalese have, of all the arts, excelled in poetry. Sinhala, the language of the Sinhalese, is a poetical language. It lends itself easily to meter and rhyme due to its grammatical flexibility and rich vocabulary comprising of a large number of synonyms.
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    Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka. Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in 1956 after a scuba diving trip off of Trincomalee. awakened him to the island's pleasures. "If I had lived in New York or London. I'd be eaten alive the 76-year-old author told the New York Times in 1994. "Here in Sri Lanka, I can control things better. I don't get so caught u in the ...
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    Works by European writers contain a good deal of information on the Sinhala language as it was understood when the works were written. These include Robert Knox's Historical Relation of Ceylon (1681), Rev. B. Clough's Sinhalese-English Dictionary (1892) and H.W. Codrington's Glossary of native, foreign and anglicized words (1924).
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    EARLY HISTORY OF SRI LANKA. According to the "Mahavamasa," a text written by a Buddhist monks in A.D. 500, the Sinhalese (the Buddhist people who make up 75 percent of Sri Lanka's population) descended from Prince Vijaya, an Aryan prince exiled from northern Saudi Arabia in about 500 B.C. and the Tamils (the mostly Hindu people who make 11 percent of the population) did not arrived until ...
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    Sri Lankan historians believe that the bridge was built by Ravana and was a floating structure connecting Lanka with lands in India. According to them the bridge was later used by Rama's army who crossed boundaries to Ravana's Lankapura and overthrew one of the greatest rulers of the world with the assistance of his brother Vibishana ...
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    The Vedda are descendants of nomadic hunter-gatherers that are believed to have been Sri Lanka's first residents. ... The Seligmanns and Dr. R. L. Spittel, have produced authoritative and interesting works on the Veddas."The Veddas" by C. G., and Brenda Seligmann (1911). ... and he is considered one of the foremost Sri Lankan writers on ...
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    The world's first museum was built in Sri Lanka 2200 years ago. It housed the parts of the ship that brought the Bodhi sapling to Sri Lanka from India in 3rd century B.C. The sapling grew into Sri Maha Bodhi (Sacred Bo-Tree) — one of Sri Lanka's two most scared objects. The Portugese, the Dutch and British all occupied at least parts of Sri ...
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    It means he is "without work" or "free of work". Ethnic Groups in Sri Lanka. Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka: Sinhalese 74.9 percent, Sri Lankan Tamil 11.2 percent, Sri Lankan Moors 9.2 percent, Indian Tamil 4.2 percent, other 0.5 percent (2012 estimate). According to 2002 data, the Sinhalese made up 74 percent of the total population, followed by ...
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    The practice of Mahayana Buddhism in Sri Lanka is also evidenced by a four-armed image of the Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future. [Source: Asia Society Museum asiasocietymuseum.org. Buddhist Sculptures in Anuradhapura. Anuradhapura (205 kilometers northeast of Colombo) is Sri Lanka's oldest and most important Sinhalese capital.
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