Akbopura Viharaya Sri Agbo Purana Raja Maha Viharaya , also known as Sri Akbopura Raja Maha Viharaya (Sinhala: ශ්රී අග්බෝ පුරාණ රජමහා විහාරය) is a Buddhist temple situated in Tissapura village in Trincomalee District, Sri Lanka. History Ancient stone sculptures belonging to the Anuradhapura Period have been unearthed from this site during the surveys done in the 1960s (Haramoto et al., 2015). Of these sculptures, the 7th-century dolomite Buddha image seated on a Naga is considered special and it was kept at the time for public view at the Trincomalee Archaeological Museum which is now closed (Haramoto et al., 2015; Schroeder, 1990). The site The site consists of a brick-built dilapidated Stupa and several other ancient remains such as statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva and pedestals of standing images (Haramoto et al., 2015). The Stupa mound, in its existing state, is roughly 3 m high occupying a 20×20 m area (Haramoto et al., 2015). A protected site The a ncient Dagaba, ruins of buildings and other archaeolog…
