TissamahÄ-vihÄra
A monastery in Rohaṇa, founded by KÄkavaṇṇa-Tissa (Mhv.xxii.23). It was also called TissÄrÄma (Mhv.xxii.28). It was one of the chief monastic establishments in Sri Lanka and was a place of pilgrimage. Some of the Sinhalese chronicles mention that KÄkavaṇṇa-Tissa built another vihÄra of the same name on the east coast of Sri Lanka, at the place now known as Seruvila, where the Buddha’s frontal bone is deposited. The MahÄmeghavanÄrÄma is also sometimes called the TissamahÄrÄma (e.g., Mhv.xx.25), and TissÄrÄma (Mhv.xv.174, 179, 203). Dappula gave to the TissamahÄ-vihÄra the village of Kattikapabbata (Cv.xiv.59).
Buddhaghosa says (DA.ii.581) that in his time all monks living in Sri Lanka, south of the MahÄvÄlukanadÄ«, assembled there twice a year, on the first and last day of the Rainy Season (vassa).
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