Ceylonese Gallery

Pina - drummer boy in a Buddhist temple, Kandy, Ceylon, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers

Pina - drummer boy in a Buddhist temple, Kandy, Ceylon, 1898. Portrait of a child with a set of double drums secured round his waist. Pina, Trommeljunge in Buddha-Tempel'. From "Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers. [Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 1898]

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Watta Raka Anunayaka Farunansa, Buddhist head priest, Ceylon, 1898

Watta Raka Anunayaka Farunansa, Buddhist head priest, Ceylon, 1898. Portrait of a shaven-headed priest of the Buddha temple at the Malwathu Maha Viharaya, a monastery in Kandy. Watta Raka Anunayaka Farunansa Maluatta Vehara. Der Oberpriester im Buddhatempel'. From "Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers. [Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 1898]

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Temple of the Sacred Tooth, Kandy, Ceylon, late 19th or early 20th century

Temple of the Sacred Tooth, Kandy, Ceylon, late 19th or early 20th century. The focal point of Kandy is the golden roofed Dalada Maligawa, the sacred Temple of the Tooth, containing the Tooth Relic of the Buddha, Sri Lanka's most important religious relic. Lantern slide

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