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Early modern · Buddhist · Sri Lanka
Sri Subodharama Raja Maha Vihara
Karagampitiya, Colombo District, Western Province · 6.8489°, 79.8683°
Gautama Buddha (image-house statues of 1780, a stupa, a Bodhi tree and a Sri Pada footprint shrine)Kandyan (Rajadhi Rajasinha)Transitional hill-country and low-country painting
Sacred since
1795 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
vihara completed 1795, stupa 1796
Kandyan (Rajadhi Rajasinha)
History & significance
A low-country temple at Karagampitiya whose vihara was finished in 1795 and its stupa in 1796, with Buddha images dating from 1780 and a Bodhi tree raised from the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi at Anuradhapura. Its murals are valued for bridging the conventional eighteenth-century hill-country manner and the more realistic nineteenth-century low-country style.