Poya (full moon) day worship/observance at Vihara (temple)
- Title:
- Poya (full moon) day worship/observance at Vihara (temple)
- Collection:
- Depicting the Sri Lankan Vernacular
- Set:
- Mimure
- Photographer:
- MacDougall, Robert D. (Robert Duncan), 1940-1987
- Date:
- 1968
- Location:
- Mimure, Kandy District, Central Province, Sri Lanka
- Country:
- Sri Lanka
- ID Number:
- MCD2_0380
- File Name:
- MCD2_0380.jpg
- Culture:
- Sinhala
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Subject:
- Mimure
religious life
Vihara/Buddhist temple
ancillary structures
Meemure (Sri Lanka)
Sri Lanka--Social life and customs
Buddhism--Sri Lanka
Uposatha Day
Buddhist temples--Sri Lanka - Image View Description:
- Image of Meemure villagers gathering at the village temple for Poya (full moon) day worship/observance. Villagers are dressed in white in the foreground, with the temple and temple roof visible in the background.
- Description:
- View of poya (full moon day) gathering at village temple.
- Cite As:
- Bonnie and Robert MacDougall papers, #15-2-4397. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This image is protected by copyright, and the copyright holder is Cornell University. It is licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Images in the Sri Lankan Vernacular collection were created between roughly 1960-2012, and were digitized by Cornell University Library from a variety of negatives, positives, and slides retained by the Estate of Bonnie MacDougall. Permission is required for any use that extends beyond what is authorized by the license, fair use, and/or other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell welcomes additional information about the items in this collection, including any additional information regarding rights holders. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu with any such information or to request permission to use any images from this collection. For additional information about how you may use materials from Cornell University Library’s Digital Collections, review our Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio from Cornell University Library Collections (http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright).