Udamuna Purana Viharaya Udamuna Purana Viharaya (Sinhala: උඩාමුණ පුරාණ විහාරය) is a Buddhist temple situated in the Veraduwa area in Matara District, Sri Lanka. History This temple have been constructed during the Kandyan Period and the Vihara-ge (the image house) of the temple is probably a work of the first decade of the 19th century (Abeyawardana, 2004; Wikramaratne, 2015). It is said that a Buddhist monk named Galle Medhankara Thera built the temple in 1805 (De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009). The date 1857 with the British crest has been found engraved over one of the doors at the residence building of the monks (Abeyawardana, 2004). The image house The limestone-built image house is considered the oldest building of the temple complex (De Silva & Chandrasekara, 2009). It consists of two sections, viz: the inner chamber and the outer part. The inner chamber preserves the oldest murals of the temple and a seated statue of the Buddha with two statues of standing Buddhas on either side are found within it…
