Images tagged "hindu_temple"

Quiet prayers in the extraordinary psychedelic interior of the Kali Kovil Temple, Trincomalee

Kanden & Sanden; Fishermen near Dolphin Beach, Kalpitiya

Sudhiva Vimala Darma - young monk at our local temple outside Dambulla

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Monk taking a photo in Polonaruwa

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Lalith Adikari - wonderful smiley lady with a shop in her living room...

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Lalith Adikari - wonderful smiley lady with a shop in her living room...

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Prayers by the big Buddha, Polonaruwa

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Lokumenike - competing in a womens' coconut leaf weaving contest (don't ask..!) she came last ...

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Lokumenike - womens' coconut leaf weaving contest she came last ...

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Fishermen on Uppuveli beach, pulling in the nets in the morning

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Fishermen on Uppuveli beach, pulling in the nets in the morning

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Kiriba - mending fishing nets near Dolphin Beach

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

A quiet moment in the mad psychedelic interior of the Kali Kovil Temple, Trincomali

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

The Amazing Psychedelic ceiling of the Kali Kovil Temple in Trincomali

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Askal making Kottu in Dambulla (delicious traditional Sri Lankan dish)

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Uppuveli beach - carrying some of the day's catch home or to market

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Hungu, young fisherman, near Dolphin Beach

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Lovely Kamela - a wonderful cook who looked afrer us in Dambulla

Thaipoosam Cavadee Tamil festival - at Tamil Surya Oudaya Sangam Temple - Grande Baie

Abundance... Ella market

Washing day - somewhere between Kandy & Ella...

The extraordinary psychedelic interior of the Kali Kovil Temple, Trincomali

Banana market, Colombo

Perevan - mmending fishing nets, near Dolphin Beach Kalpitya

Ceiling of the Sri Muthumariamman Thevastanam temple

Hungu & Kanden - fishermen near Dolphin Beach, Kalpitiya

Ranji Ranjana - lovely woman selling sarongs & scarves on Uppuveli beach

Candle offerings at the Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, evening 'Vesak' full moon puja for the Buddha's birthday

Sarat - temple drummer at Mihintale Rajamaha Viharaya Temple

Choti Holi Hindu festival in Pussellawa

Early morning 'Vesak' full moon puja for the Buddha's birthday in Weligama temple

Dambulla cave temples - Big Buddha feet..

Abundance! Ella market....

A guy I met selling chickens from his motorbike

Fire eaters in Kandy

More Buddha feet! Dambulla cave temples

Jayadana; Pussellawa

Pink & blue - women at the Ravana waterfall

Choti Holi Hindu festival in Pussellawa

Theepika at her home near the Blue Lagoon, Nilaveli

Family home near the Blue Lagoon, Nilaveli

Women praying in the shade of prayer flags near the Sri Maha Bodhi

Bosith in his father's fruit & vegetable shop

Offerings in a temple near the Sri Maha Bodhi, Anuradapura

On the way to Ravana waterfall

Ruvanwelisaya stupa, Anuradapura

Abundance everywhere in this country!

Full moon 'Vesak' puja for the Buddha's birthday at the Temple of the tooth, Kandy

Nandaveti at the Temple of the tooth, Kandy

Trincomalee

Fish shops in Trincomalee

Walawahangunawawe Uparathana Thero

Seetha Ranjani; near the Ruvanwelisaya stupa, Anuradapura

We call them umbrellas.....!

Ruvanwelisaya stupa, Anuradapura

Aukuna Buddha temple

Some of the 500 arhats (I think)

Maata - tea plantation somewhere near Kandy

Bosith & his grandmother Pinchi Amma

Fabulous fruit & veg shop; Habarana, near Dambulla

Asoka Kumati Herath & Pathma Nilanthi Rakasinha - near the Ruvanwelisaya stupa, Anuradapura

Decorating a lovely small roadside Hindu temple for the Choti Holi festival

Ghana Guruge - near the Ruvanwelisaya stupa, Anuradapura

Dambulla cave temples

Dambulla cave temples

Dambulla cave temples

Dambulla cave temples

Lasini in her parents' shop - Highland Milk Bar; Dambulla

Sleeping Buddha on Pidurangala hill

Same sleeping buddha from the feet end...

Schoolchildren coming from their Sunday class at a temple near Sighiriya

Sarat & Chataranga: temple drummers at Mihintale Rajamaha Viharaya Temple

I didn't manage to get his name; I think he is the owner of this roadside bar selling 'curd' - delicious home-made yoghourt

Shop in Trincomalee

Dinah & Abece; Pigeon Island, Nilaveli

Sunrise & fishermen pulling in the nets on Nilaveli beach

Sunrise & fishermen pulling in the nets on Nilaveli beach

Fatima & Karim; pulling the nets in on Nilaveli beach

Sudarsen & his daughter Sudarseni

Temple of the Tooth, full moon puja ('Vesak') for the Buddha's birthday

Bisomenike & Nyanawati; Temple of the Tooth, Kandy

Blue Lagoon, Nilaveli

Rihanna & her son Asab; Blue Lagoon, Nilaveli

Konneswaram Kovil HIndu temple; Trincomalee

Sunit - at Buddhist Saturday school at Aukuna temple

Somewhere on the road....

Mihintale Rajamaha Viharaya temple

Anuradapura

Sellaraj: making delicious rotis & wadis by the side of the road

Monks, Anuradapura

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