Security Forces personnel in their hundreds, showing their artistic and cultural talents to coincide with the 2600th Sambuddhatva Jayanthi Vesak commemoration, are actively contributing to the successful conduct of Vesak zones in Colombo and its suburbs.
The main spectacle, the Vesak zone covering Temple Trees and Gangaramaya with more than two hundred lanterns, pandols, different illuminations, decorated floats and sailing vessels, continues to draw mammoth crowds. In the past two days (May 17 - 18) alone, a record one million spectators have visited the zone.
On Wednesday, the zone was declared open by HE the President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the company of President’s Secretary Mr Lalith Weerathunga, Secretary Defence Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Ministers, Army, Navy and Air Force Commanders, Inspector General of Police and a host of other invitees. President Mahinda Rajapaksa inaugurated the day’s ceremony after placing the relic casket in the Seema Malakaya shrine for public veneration.
Sri Lanka Army soldiers as well as Navy and Air Force personnel who have produced a wide assortment of creative works that depict life stories in Buddhist canons, stole the show as enthusiastic sight-seers in large groups flocked to witness those decorations, compelling the Police to close down roads leading to the zone.
Most of those creative decorations have been organized using natural raw materials and discarded paper, etc. Sailing floats crafted by sailors in Beira Lake drew attention of everybody as they resonated the air with devotional songs from illuminated vessels.
Exposition of Buddhist relics in the colourfully decorated ‘Seema Malakaya’ is to continue till Sunday (22).
Meanwhile, Tri-service personnel and Police officers have put up a line of decorative lanterns and other displays along Gregory Road on account of Vesak celebrations organized by Sri Sambodhi Viharaya.
The main spectacle, the Vesak zone covering Temple Trees and Gangaramaya with more than two hundred lanterns, pandols, different illuminations, decorated floats and sailing vessels, continues to draw mammoth crowds. In the past two days (May 17 - 18) alone, a record one million spectators have visited the zone.
On Wednesday, the zone was declared open by HE the President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the company of President’s Secretary Mr Lalith Weerathunga, Secretary Defence Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Ministers, Army, Navy and Air Force Commanders, Inspector General of Police and a host of other invitees. President Mahinda Rajapaksa inaugurated the day’s ceremony after placing the relic casket in the Seema Malakaya shrine for public veneration.
Sri Lanka Army soldiers as well as Navy and Air Force personnel who have produced a wide assortment of creative works that depict life stories in Buddhist canons, stole the show as enthusiastic sight-seers in large groups flocked to witness those decorations, compelling the Police to close down roads leading to the zone.
Most of those creative decorations have been organized using natural raw materials and discarded paper, etc. Sailing floats crafted by sailors in Beira Lake drew attention of everybody as they resonated the air with devotional songs from illuminated vessels.
Exposition of Buddhist relics in the colourfully decorated ‘Seema Malakaya’ is to continue till Sunday (22).
Meanwhile, Tri-service personnel and Police officers have put up a line of decorative lanterns and other displays along Gregory Road on account of Vesak celebrations organized by Sri Sambodhi Viharaya.
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