Panadura
Sign in to savePanadura (; ) is a main city in Kalutara District, Western Province in Sri Lanka. It is located approximately south of Colombo. Panadura was an electoral district in Sri Lanka until 1989 and is surrounded all sides by water through the Indian Ocean and the Bolgoda Lake. Panadura is famed as the location of important events in the Buddhist revival movement of Sri Lanka and Panadura Beach is an attractive destination for locals and foreign tourists.
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Place details
- Locality
- Walana
- Region
- Western Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Population
- 33,735
- Timezone
- Asia/Colombo
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Key facts
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- Panadura
- Settlement.image_skyline
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- Settlement.image_seal
- File:Panadura_Urban_Council_Seal.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Sri Lanka
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Sri Lanka
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Western Province
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- District
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- Kalutara District
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- Division
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Kalutara District
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- Samadhi Buddha statue in Panadura, Sri Lanka..jpg
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Panadura Debate
- Demographics
- Ethnicity in Panadura
- Transport
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- Rail
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- Health care facilities
- Public and Private schools
- Architecture
- Notable individuals
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Panadura (; ) is a main city in Kalutara District, Western Province in Sri Lanka. It is located approximately south of Colombo. Panadura was an electoral district in Sri Lanka until 1989 and is surrounded all sides by water through the Indian Ocean and the Bolgoda Lake. Panadura is famed as the location of important events in the Buddhist revival movement of Sri Lanka and Panadura Beach is an attractive destination for locals and foreign tourists.
== Panadura Debate == The Panadura Debate, held in 1873, was the climax of the first phase of the Buddhist revivalist movement which began with the establishment of the Society for the Propagation of Buddhism at Kotahena and the establishment of the Lankopakara Press in Galle. The two key persons in the Panadura Debate were Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera and Father David de Silva, and the two key institutions were the Rankoth Viharaya and the Methodist Church of Panadura. It was the success of the Panadura Debate that prompted Colonel Henry Steel Olcott to come to Ceylon.