Dambulla Cave Temple

Also known as Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple

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-100

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The Dambulla Cave Temple is a Buddhist rock monastery cut into five caves on a granite outcrop that rises about 160 meters above the dry-zone plain in central Sri Lanka. Tradition places its origin in the first century BC, when King Valagam …

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