Cultural · Chunnakam · Northern

The Ruins of Kadurugoda Viharaya

Ancient Kadurugoda Viharaya — 3 km south of Chunnakam, Jaffna peninsula

STUPAS IN THE GROVEPhoto by Gane Kumaraswamy on Wikimedia Commons9.7500° N, 80.0167° E

Dozens of knee-high grey stupas in a palmyra grove — a Buddhist site in the heart of the Tamil north.

A cluster of small coral-stone stupas at Kandarodai near Chunnakam, on the Jaffna peninsula. Excavations date the site to around the 2nd century BCE, making it one of the peninsula's main Buddhist archaeological sites.

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