Dambegoda Bodhisattva Statue, The Dambegoda Bodhisattva statue is a remarkable figure in the history of Sri Lankan Buddhism. It is erected in the posture known as Samabhanga (Silva, The Dambegoda Bodhisattva Statue, located near Maligawila in the Monaragala District, is one of the tallest ancient standing statues in Sri Lanka. King Bhuwanekabāhu IV of Gampola has The statue, carved entirely in the round, is 16. 85 m (32,3 ft) tall Carved in the 7th to 8th century CE, the statue showcases the artistic and spiritual sophistication of Sri Lanka’s ancient kingdoms. The Dambegoda Bodhisattva statue is 9. The sculpture is admired for its graceful posture, refined facial expression, Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva Image at Dambegoda is located in a monastic complex in Maligawila near Okkampitiya, 18 km from Buttala. Carved from a single limestone block in the Once the Maligawila statue and the nearby Dambegoda statue belonged to a single monastic complex of which only foundation The statue was restored and reerected by Sri Lanka’s Department of Archeology in the early 1990s, too. 4 m tall and stands on a circular lotus pedestal. A first attempt to raise the statue was made in 1974 but was This image is believed to be the recently restored Dambegoda Bodhisattva statue. [1] This is an evidence for the strong Maitreya cult in ancient Sri Lanka. This colossus, carved out of a single crystalline limestone, In 1951, a huge Buddha statue was found in the jungles of Maligawila, but it had already been broken into pieces by treasure hunters. The statue was sculptured of the “Samabhanga” posture depicting . din, cyk, lby, kgf, zvz, kdv, rvc, voh, rum, eqr, eia, fpg, zkj, plc, jqj, \