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Kataragama the Great Shrine of the South
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by Oscar Nonis. Kataragama is one of Sri Lanka's 16 principal places of Buddhist pilgrimage, and is also an important shrine for other religions - the Kataragama God predates the Buddha of years ago, and was originally inherited (in some form) from the indigenous Vedda forest dwellers. To complicate things further, there's a Muslim shrine tucked amongst the foliage, and the Tamil Hindus ...
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