Buddhist Temple, Kalani
Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
c. 1880
- Medium
- Albumen print from glass plate negative
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Culture
- Sri Lanka, Kandy
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
