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Title: Shrine/image house: Seated Buddha statue
Creator: de Silva, Preethi
Date Created and/or Issued: 1999
Publication Information: Claremont Colleges Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Ancient Cultural Sites and Royal Residences
Rights Information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description: The shrine is in a cave. Detail of sculpted and painted makara figure at right side of seated Buddha within the shrine; figures of guardians and celestial beings in relief surround the statue.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00127.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/203
Subject: Statues
Buddha
Shrines (structures)
Time Period: 18th century CE, late Kandyan period
Place: Sässēruwa (Räs vehera)
North Central province, 11 km west of Avukana (location of famous Buddha statue).
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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