For architect Shereen Amendra, the fascination of the Mahathupa (the original Pali name which she prefers) began when she was a teenager. Her mother Doreen Alles’s copy of the Mahavamsa much-thumbed ...

The festival celebrates the ancient and revered stupa, which is cherished by the local community and venerated as a place of worship and supplication. The stupa is more than 400 years old and ...