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Catalogue Reference:(RGS) S0001947

A photograph, taken in the late 1880s, of a carved rock statue of the Buddha in Sri Lanka. Buddhism began as a philosophical and ethical movement 2,500 years ago in the area near Benares, India and spread from there. It reached Sri Lanka some three centuries later.

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