Dambulla Golden Temple

Dambulla Cave Golden Temple, Dambulla Rajamaha Viharaya, Dambulla Save Temple, Rock Temple of Dambulla
Sri lanka, Dambulla
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Dambulla Golden Temple

Dambulla Cave Golden Temple, Dambulla Rajamaha Viharaya, Dambulla Save Temple, Rock Temple of Dambulla
Sri lanka, Dambulla
The Golden Temple of Dambulla is a unique and inimitable cave temple complex, founded in the 1st century BC. BC e. Many ancient rulers of Sri Lanka took part in its creation and development. The temple is located right inside the rock at an altitude of 350 m. Dambulla is famous for the largest collection of Buddha statues - there are 153 of them and some sculptures are more than two thousand years old. The temple got its name "Golden" because about half of the statues are covered with pure gold. Also in the caves are statues of Sri Lankan kings, gods and goddesses. The walls of the caves are densely covered with traditional Buddhist paintings and frescoes. In fact, the temple is a huge gallery of rock art. The paintings depict the main moments in the life of the Buddha - birth, insight, renunciation of a rich life, sermons, meditations and much more.
The golden temple of Dambulla consists of five man-made caves, each of them has its own name and its own distinctive features: Devarajalena, Maha Alut Viharaya, Maharajalena, Pachchima Viharaya, Devana Alut Viharaya.
The temple has been a sacred place of pilgrimage for 22 centuries.

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Traveled 8 years ago
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The Golden Buddha is majestic, the Dambulla Golden Temple in Sri Lanka - a unique and inimitable cave temple complex - consists of five caves, each of them has its own name and its own distinctive features: Devarajalena, Maharajalena, Maha Alut Viharaya, Pachchima Viharaya, Devana Alut Viharaya, the first caves of the Dambulla temple were founded as early as the 1st century BC. The price of the entrance ticket is 1500 Sri Lankan rupees ($ 11), climbing very long steps you need to take off your shoes and then only barefoot, clothes must be closed, knees and shoulders, and you can’t wear a headdress! On the way to the cave temple on the steps, we met a lot of monkeys, and from the top a view of Sigiriya opened - the Lion Mountain was clearly visible, 18 km from there.
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