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Sacred Spaces- Sri Lanka

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  • Sri Lanka. Adams Peak, known locally as Sri Pada, is the mountain sacred to Buddhist's and site of an annual pilgrimage. The Peak has a rock which they say has an imprint of the of the Buddha's foot.
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  • Sri Lanka. Buddhist nun holding a coconut and burning camphor at Kataragama. Coconuts are broken in front of the shrine when making a vow or when giving thanks to the God's. circa 1986
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  • Stone pillars above the Vessagiriya cave monastery at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Anuradhapura. Central Sri Lanka.
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  • Boys collect the offerings left the day before from the tree that overlooks the ocean.<br />
Tirukoneswaram Temple.
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  • 'Vel' or spear at Hindu shrine and altar. Dambetenne Estate.
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  • Painted rock surface at Hindu shrine. Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • The Buddhist temple, Girikandaraya Chaitiya near Kalametiya Lagoon. South Coast.
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  • Vessagiri cave monastery, Anuradhapura.
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  • Vessagiri complex. Anuradhapura.
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  • Stone steps. Cave at Vessagiri complex. Anuradhapura.
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  • Cave at Vessagiri complex. Anuradhapura.
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  • Asokaramaya Buddhist Temple. Colombo.
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  • Asokaramaya Buddhist Temple. Colombo.
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  • Asokaramaya Buddhist Temple. Colombo.
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  • Sri Lanka. The Gal Vihara (Stone Temple) at Polonnaruwa. One of three monumental stone sculptures from the 12th century. Attributed to King Parakramabahu I (the Great). Polonnaruwa is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Entrance to a Buddhist Temple in Kandy.
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  • Sri Lanka. August 2001 with Isabella..Large Ganesh at entrance to Anuradhapura, outside a Budhist temple. coming in from Mihintale Road..About 5 foot high. Taken in late afternoon. Compare with one taken at high noon.
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  • Tree Shrine to Amman/Devi at Hindu Kovil near Haputale.<br />
Statue with umbrella, near Haputale.<br />
(A3 12/2021)
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  • Sri Lanka. Udappuwa festival, the preparation for the fire walking. The pit is prepared. The burning wood levelled, the embers shaped into a rectangular pit.
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  • Udappuwa festival. At the Kali Kovil in the north of the village. Getting ready for the procession to the main Kovil.<br />
Sri Lanka.
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  • Sri Lanka. Womens festival at Udappuwa. The first festival after the Sinhala Tamil New year, in the hot month of April or May. They dance in groups around a shrine at night and the next morning. On the Wednesday* morning, they all converge on the beach, carrying with them pots with seedlings and end the celebration with an offering to the sea. An adaptation of a harvest & rain festival, at this fishing community the prayer is for a better catch from the sea. .*The festival is always on a Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.<br />
Sri Lanka.
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  • Festival at Udappu village.
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  • SRI LANKA..Udsappuwa festival. Participants at the festival, a ceremony that leaves from the Sri Kali Amman Hindu kovil in the afternoon, early evening. They will go to the main kovil from the Kali kovil in the north of the village
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  • The Nallur Kandasamy festival in Jaffna, surrounded by a high red & white wall. The annual festival is in July or August.<br />
Sri Lanka.
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  • The Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil Chariot festival. Jaffna. ..2004
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  • 'Vel' or spear at Hindu shrine. Dambetenne Estate. Maduraiveeran,<br />
Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Head of deity at a small shrine near Haputale.
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  • Waiting for the evenings procession to begin, These men will carry the God on it's chariot, the Horse, around the temple.
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  • Deity in stone at Hindu Devale near Haputale town. 2009
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  • Hindu shrine. Dambetenne.<br />
Hill country. Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Hindu shrine at Dambetenne tea estate.<br />
Horse and rider. Hindu shrine. Dambetenna Estate, Dambetenna.
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  • Hanuman shrine
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  • Sri Pushparama Maha Viharaya, Balapitiya. Interior by H. M. Mendis of Ahangama.
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  • Woman standing beside statue of crucified Christ at a Catholic Church on the island of Kayts. Jaffna Peninsula.<br />
St. Mary's Church. 2002
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  • Catholic cross on the banks of the Negombo lagoon. Negombo, on the West coast, is a mainly Roman Catholic part of the island.
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  • Altar,  Catholic Church in Kayts, Jaffna...Crucifix...March 2002
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  • Ganesh painted on wall of a small Kovil in the village around Tirukovil.
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  • Sri Lanka. Buddhist temple just off the Kandy Road. Turn off at Mudungoda Junction.
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  • Keys to a Buddhist Temple. circa 1980<br />
Cover of Serendib Magazine. Volume 1 No: 1.
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  • Yellow hand. Statue at Buddhist temple off the Kandy Road. circa 1985<br />
Godagedara Uththara Mula Piriven Rajamaha Viharaya. Mudungoda
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  • A small roadside small shrine on road leading to main Kovil in Tirukovil town. East Coast. 2010
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  • Sri Lanka.<br />
Small unidentified shrine at the foothills of the Horton Plains, enetering from the Agra Patana area.<br />
Copyright: Dominic Sansoni
    Sri Lanka. Unidentified small shrine.jpg
  • Ceiling and roof detail of the Temple of the Tooth, or Dalada Maligawa, Kandy.
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  • Entrance of Devale near the Dalada Maligawa in Kandy.
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  • Church facade. I think this is in Kalutara.
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  • A church dedicated to Saint Sebastian near the town of Kalutara on the west coast of sri lanka.<br />
Copyright: Dominic Sansoni
    Sri Lanka. Church to Saint Sebastian.jpg
  • Mosque near the Town Hall in Colombo. A famous landmark of the City.<br />
Copyright: Dominic Sansoni
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