Vidyodaya pirivena
1885 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Vidyodaya Pirivena, the Buddhist monastic college established in Colombo in 1873, appears in this 1885 photograph, taken not long after the institution was founded as a center for Buddhist and Sinhalese learning under British colonial rule.
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