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Early modern · Buddhist · Sri Lanka

Sunandarama Vihara

Galle District, Southern Province · 6.2341°, 80.0571°

Gautama Buddha (image houses and a sacred Bodhi tree)UndeterminedKandyan
Sacred since
1750 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
Bodhi planted c. 1750; temple developed from 1970
Undetermined

History & significance

A Buddhist temple in the Galle District grown up around a Bodhi tree planted about 1750, with image houses holding Buddha statues including a marble figure presented from Burma. Its systematic development as a monastery began in 1970.

Sthala katha — the traditional account

What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.

Its Bodhi tree is held to be one of the eight branches taken from the sacred Sri Maha Bodhi at Anuradhapura.

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Sources

coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-28 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Undetermined