The addition to the temple that will house the accessible rest rooms is under way. Today the tresses arrived and Charlie’s crew quickly removed the stucco from the outside wall of the temple and quickly framed out the roof. By the end of the day the roof was enclosed.
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Bhikkhu Gunaratana visited the Mahaweli Maha Seya, a stupa under construction in Kotmale, Sri Lanka, and sent us these photos. Kotmale is in a tea growing area in the central province of the island. The very large stupa is hollow with a smaller stupa inside. It will be used as a meditation center when finished. Sri Lanka has a long tradition of building these very large stupas, some dating to the second century BCE. This one is being built by ...
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