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The Kalutara Chaitya

Kalutara Chaitya — In Kalutara town

Kalutara Chaitya, the hollow white stupa beside the Kalu GangaTHE HOLLOW DOMEPhoto by Yoshan Bisanka on Wikimedia Commons
In Kalutara townPhoto — Yoshan Bisanka

One of the very few stupas anywhere that you can walk inside.

A hollow stupa beside the Kalu Ganga bridge at Kalutara, completed in 1974. Visitors walk into the dome itself, where the inner walls carry murals of the Jataka stories.

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6.5831° N, 79.9593° ECarto · OSM

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