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Aug 15, 2018
Buddhist Temple, Kalani
Buddhist Temple, Kalani
c. 1880
Scowen & Co.
(British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
Albumen print from glass plate negative
Image: 21.5 x 27.7 cm (8 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Paper: 21.5 x 27.7 cm (8 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Mounted: 29 x 37 cm (11 7/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer 2018.38
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Next to the tree are the buildings of a monastery and a whitewashed, dome-shaped structure with pointed spire, called a stupa.
Description
This image may actually show the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi, a sacred fig tree planted in 288 BC in Mahamewna Gardens, Anuradhapura, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Grown from a cutting of the tree in India under which Buddha attained enlightenment, it is one of the most sacred Buddhist relics in Sri Lanka.
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