# Buddhist Temple, Kalani

- By: Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.38)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.38/2018.38_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.