Symposia & Conferences: Recent submissions

  • Pack Animals for Transportation 
    Kothalawala, C. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Pack Animals such as camels, goats, elephants, mules, donkeys, horses and yaks are used by humans to transport goods, humans, etc. All the weight bears on pack animals’ back. In ancient time, animals such as camels, goats, ...
  • Road to Jaffna –Road to Reconciliation in Sri Lanka 
    Thalpawila, O.N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    As a result of the civil war in Sri Lanka, the entire road network and many bridges in the Northern and the Eastern provinces had been destroyed or rendered practically unusable due to armed attacks and negligence of ...
  • Kolkata’s Tram- Running Heritage Vehicle in Indian Transport System: The Museum Implanted for the Preservation and Conservation of Vintage Vehicle 
    Das, P. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    We have seen Kolkata’s Tram has its own heritage in this world. But, today’s Kolkata is not the same as earlier Kolkata. After the 17th century to pre-independent era of India as well as Calcutta, a lot of foreign communities ...
  • The Clues on the Silk Road in the Pali Cannon, the Commentaries and the Chronicles 
    Kumara, V; Ven.Nanda, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The importance of the Pali Canonical and Commentarial literatures cannot be narrowed to the religious teachings only. It, indeed, incorporates the essential information that gives light on the other subjects such as culture, ...
  • Wheel to Wheel less Locomotives—Revolutionary discoveries, heritage and its exposition in Museum: A Case Study 
    Ray, D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Discovery of the wheel in the late Neolithic followed by the use of spoke wheel in carts in the second half of the 4th Millennium BCE in Mesopotamia or specifically in the Sumerian Civilization initiated the journey of ...
  • Artistic Expressions on the Vehicles 
    Bhat, R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The heritage of ‘transport’ is as ancient as the human existence; transport has much more significance than the ‘movement’. The phenomenon of transport entails the connection of cultures, carrier of ideas as well as ...
  • Road etiquette observed when passing a door at a Kadaim-doratu during the Kandian Kingdom 
    Perera, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Kandian Kingdom was divided into 12 parts and was ruled by twelve Kandian chieftains. The boundaries of these geographical areas were known as Kadaim and the door was the doratu only through which the people could pass. ...
  • Palanquin – the wheel-less luxury cart 
    Chakrabarti, M. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    A palanquin, also called palki, is a covered sedan chair on four shafts carried by two, four or more men (Kaahar). Palkis have been mentioned in the Indian epics. A beautifully decorated and covered cart protected its ...
  • ‘Wheel’ – The Basis of Movement In the Context of Indian Culture, Thought and Art 
    Yegnaswamy, J. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Wheel is defined as a tangible circular object revolves on an axis, and while fixed beneath a vehicle enables it to move over the land. The earliest wheel in history is the potter’s wheel (c. 500 BCE), and when its horizontal ...
  • Trade Centers of Early Medieval Eastern India and Their connectivity 
    Kumar, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The Post Gupta social formation was marked by the emergence of regional identities. Right from the time of the Guptas, and more so during the post Gupta time the process of the origin and evolution of states which was till ...
  • Promoting Railway Tourism in Si Lanka 
    Rathnayake, S.; Rathnayake, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Accessibility is one of the main components in tourism destination. Traveling by train is a famous accessibility method of the tourism industry. Railway tourism or train tourism is not a new concept. It dates back to late ...
  • Paths, Places and Voids: some thoughts on a prehistoric symbolic representation recovered from a cave in Sabaragamuva Province, Sri Lanka 
    Somadeva1, R.; Wanninayake, A.; Devage, D.; Ambalampitiya, J; Fernando, R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Symbolism is one of the major cognitive advances that had been prominently developed by anatomically modern humans. It involved a complex web of biological, ecological and social qualifiers acquired through the evolutionary ...
  • Lost on the pilgrim routes. 
    Dissanayake, D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Pilgrimages developed with devotees traveling to visit sacred spaces and sacred objects and symbols. Among the followers of Buddha and Dhamma, there was no reason, and no necessity to go on pilgrimages or worship any objects ...
  • A Critical Examination of Epistemology in Jainism 
    de Zoysa, H.N. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017)
    Jainism is an ancient religion from India that teaches that the way to liberation and bliss is to live a life of harmlessness and renunciation. It began in the 6th century as a reformation movement within Hinduism. Vardhaman ...
  • A study based on the Buddhist teachings towards Conflict Resolution in the Society 
    Peiris, M.J.D. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017)
    There are numerous conflicts have occurred in the world. These conflicts are different in terms of the nature of it, mainly religious, ethnic, indigenous conflicts etc. Establishing a peaceful society is the most burning ...
  • Jaina Religion in Ancient Sri Lanka 
    Bandara, N.; Bandara, D.; Harischandra, M. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017)
    Jaina religion was one of the most popular religions that existed in ancient India. (It is well known as jainasm or jaina Sharma which belongs to the Sramana tradition) The religious leader of Jainism is known as Nigankanatha ...
  • Survival and continuity of folk culture amidst Jain remains in Purulia district of West Bengal (India) 
    Bajpai, L.M. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017)
    The paper is an attempt to highlight the survival of folk traditions, rites, rituals and festivals amidst the many Jain historical remains in Purulia district of West Bengal (India). The region saw an important assimilation ...
  • Difference between the Tirthankaras and Buddha Sculptures 
    Rawat, B.; Misra, S. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017)
    In Ancient India there were two types of thoughts namely Yogavadi and Bhogavadi. Under Yogavadi thought the Sramana culture also used to come who believe in yoga as well as effort. There is the description of Sramanas in ...
  • Etterment of Sick Monks (An exploration of theories in building construction accustomed in three ancient monastic hospitals ruins) 
    Kulanatha, I.GP.R. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017)
    Ruins found in Buddhist Monastic hospitals in main three sites in Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa Districts, excavated by Unesco Sri Lanka show two major structural base forms rectangular and quadrangular. They evidence that ...
  • A conceptual assimilation between Ayurveda and Buddhist Theories 
    Kulasinghe, W.B.W.; Kulanatha, I.G.P.R. (Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2017)
    "Vedana"is a kind of feeling experiencing may possiblyin good or bad and not eternal same as the world.Uprooting "vedana" exclusively has elaborated by Lord Buddhism rather than any profounder of any tradition. Ayurveda ...

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