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Item A Review On Paintings of Monasteries in The Anuradhapura Era as Illustrated in Buddhist Literature(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Munasinghe, A.Y.This study explores the political significance of ancient temple paintings in Anuradhapura through an examination of classical Buddhist literature. While ancient cave and temple paintings are acknowledged as a significant element in the history of Sri Lankan paintings, representing distinct traditions of art of different ages, the blossoming of Sri Lankan art is strongly associated with the Anuradhapura era. However, little is known of the sociocultural and political significance of the paintings of this time which influenced the different painting traditions. As archaeological factors alone are inadequate to identify such influences on ancient art, this study attempts to enrich this inquiry by examining written sources such as the Mahavansa, Vamsatthappakasini, Visuddhimargaya, Samanthapasadika, Thupavanshaya and Mahabodhivanshaya of the thero Fa-Hien.Item Poetics and Noetics in the Therī gātā in terms of their presentation of ‘Transience’(Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Tennakoon, W.Therī Gātā is a recreation of the stark truth of transience the Therīs have inevitably experienced in the secular world in the form of poetry. The philosophy presented through their understanding of transience and the rhetoric through which they have presented their experiences of renunciation include poetics and noetics into these poetry of the nuns at the time of the Buddha. Thērī Subhā‘s verses where her eyes which are appreciated to be similar to a ‗kinnari‘ inside a mountain and to a bud of a blue lotus, have immediately been turned to be a little ball set in a hollow with tears and eye secretion could be pointed out as a beautiful example of the blend of poetics and noetics in the Therī gātā. The present work thus expects to study various instances in the Therī gātā where poetics and noetics have been used, with the main objective of finding out the possibility for them to be categorized with the mainstream literature of the present world and thus introducing them to the school and university syllabi. The research thus falls into the category of qualitative type of research and thus an extensive study of the related literature to the topic under concerned was carried out. (words: 202)