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Travel : Religious festivals

11 images Created 15 Jul 2014

Travel photography folio of a Religious or spiritual nature by Lonely Planet Photographer Asanka Brendon Ratnayake
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  • A Nepalese hindu woman makes an offering at the shrine of the Bhairavnath temple in the Bhaktapur Durbar Square, Nepal. Bhairavnath temple dedicated to Kasi Bhairav, the three storied temple of Bhairavnath has only the head of Bhairav in the inner sanctum. Legend has it that Kasi Bhairav’s head was cut off by a tantric expert in order to keep him in Bhaktapur.
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  • Kandyan themed drummers walk towards the Gangaramaya Temple.
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  • A young boy part of the highly popular fire twirling procession.
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  • Worshipper holding a coconut representing the human body, the coconut is the purest thing that a human being can offer to a deity. This will later be broken symbolizing the breaking of the ego.
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  • A young boy & his troupe perform the highly popular fire twirling act called Gini Sisla or otherwise known as the fire Dance lays on the ground while quickly rotating a metal ring which holds petrol soaked pieces of coal which are set alight.
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  • Devotees dressed in traditional outfit form gathered outside the Geoffrey Bawa designed Seema Malakaya temple on Beira Lake.
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  • A decorated elephant apart of the procession walks towards the temple.
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  • A Hindu worshipper pilgrim touches and makes an offering to the huge stone statue of Kali (Kala) (black) Bhairav, Shiva's 6-armed destructive form, in Kathmandu Durbar Square. Atop his wide-eyed face is a crown decorated with human skulls, and on his back is a human skin. Kala Bhairav stands on a prostrate figure that represents human ignorance. Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Young buddhist worshippers dressed in the customary white walk towards the entrance of the Rock Temple in Dumbulla.
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  • The sacred cow out the front of the hindu Nallur Kandaswamy temple or kovil. On a rainy That Pongal day.
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  • A hindu priest or Swamy passing on Bhiksha, a devotional offering from worshipper to the monkey god known as Hanuman inside the Sri Anjaneyar Temple in Jaffna.
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