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Title	Gedigē
Photographer	Bopearachchi, Osmund
Built by	Restored by King Mahinda IV (956-972 CE), but bulit by earlier monarchs
Subject	Buildings
Site Location	Citadel
City/Region	Anurādhapura
Country	Sri Lanka
Year Established	5th or 6th century CE
Description	The Gedigē is a square, tall, brick edifice with projecting bays, which had an upper story with a vaulted brick superstructure, possibly with a tiled roof, and a circumambulatory path. It is a rare edifice. Several door and window frames have been preserved. The first few steps of its stairway are to be seen on the western side. An earlier building of the same design, but in an inferior state of preservation, is nearby. This edifice and the nearby relic house may have housed Mahāyana or Theravāda texts. The Archaeological Department has recently proposed that the Gedige was the Sacred Temple of the Tooth Relic. Side view, which had an upper story with a vaulted roof and a circumambulatory path.
Publisher	Claremont Colleges Library
Date	2014
Collection	Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - http://cdm15831.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15831coll15
Rights	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Type	Image
Format	image/jp2
Object File Name	acs00179.JPG

Gedigē

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