Ambalangoda Sunandarama Viharaya Sunandarama Purana Viharaya , also known as Ambalangoda Maha Pansala (Sinhala: අම්බලන්ගොඩ සුනන්දාරාම පුරාණ විහාරය), is a Buddhist temple situated in Ambalangoda in Galle District, Sri Lanka. History Sunandarama Viharaya is known as a place where a Buddhist revival took place in Southern Sri Lanka under the patronage of Ven. Weliwita Asaranasarana Sri Saranankara Sangharaja Thera [(1698-1778 A.D.) Ranchagoda, 2015]. The temple is said to have been renovated in 1799 (Abeyawardana, 2004; Ranchagoda, 2015). Image houses & the bell tower There are two image houses at Sunandarama Viharaya and one of them contains some paintings belonging to the maritime style of the Kandyan art tradition (Abeyawardana, 2004; Ranchagoda, 2015). These are said to have been done in 1803 by an artist named Kadolgolle Sittara (Ranchagoda, 2015). The other image house was constructed in 1886 by a Buddhist monk named Ambalangoda Sumangala Thera (De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009). Many consider this temple's t…
