12th Century stone faces at Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom, Cambodia.

The stone faces at Bayon Temple at Angkor Thom, Cambodia.

Sri Lanka. Ridi Vihara. Interior of small shrine room.

Sri Lanka. Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple, Dodanduwa (below) and Ridi Viharaya, near Kurunegala (above).

Recent Travels....Shailabimbarama Temple, Dodanduwa

Last week a journey to Dodanduwa. Left Colombo by 5.30 and down the highway to turn off at Baddegana junction.

Shailabimbarama Temple has an extraordinary collection of temple murals/paintings. 

I was back in Colombo by 4 that afternoon.  More pictures can be seen on the web site. 

Ganesh at Nanu Oya

Flying figure and Umbrella

Mauritius. Murugan temple at Clemencia.

This is credited with being the oldest Hindu Temple on the island. The site is very beautiful, a quiet small village, and the temple looks over sugar cane fields and mountains in the far distance.

And lovely that MS was there with me...

Girikandaraya Chaitiya near Kalametiya Lagoon. South Coast.

Sri Lanka. Stock Photography. Lankatilaka Temple.

Guardian deities at the entrance to the main shrine room of the Lankatilaka temple.
Lankatilaka Temple, just outside Kandy, is one of the finest examples of Buddhist architecture on this island.
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Sri Lanka. Lankatilake temple. near Kandy

The very beautiful temple on the rock.

India. Thanjavur Temple. Stock photography.

Entrance to Thanjavur Temple.
The Brihadishwara Temple also known as Rajarajeswaram, at Thanjavur, is the world's first complete granite temple and a brilliant example of the major heights achieved by Cholas in temple architecture.
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Sri Lanka. Stock. Prayer, Batticaloa.

Mamangeshwarar Temple Festival. 2008

Sri Lanka. Isipathanaramaya temple, Colombo 5.

Albert is the caretaker of the Image House at the temple.

Isipathanaramaya, Colombo 5.

I am fortunate in having two special neighbourhood Buddhist temples; Asokaramaya and Isipathanaramaya. On Sunday I went back to the latter to after a gap of many years.
It was fun trying to replicate pictures I first took years ago but this time using a new camera that I am still trying out. The temple is well worth a visit for its collection of fine paintings that date from the 1920's CERNO, any thoughts on who the artist might have been?