Sri Lanka is a lovely place to visit if you like temples and especially ancient ones at that. Being a Buddhist country, you'd of course expect to see lots of Buddhist temples and stupas. The Golden Temple of Dambulla or Dambulla cave temple in the city of Dambulla in Matale District has been accorded a World Heritage Site in 1991 and is one is the largest and best-preserved cave temple complex in Sri Lanka. There are more than 80 documented caves here but the major attractions are spread over 5 caves. King Valagambahu, a king of the Sri Lanka's Anuradhapura Kingdom is said to have converted the caves into a temple in the 1st century BC and later, many other kings improved on it, turning it into a major religious centre. The temple is still functional today and I suppose, ladies are not allowed to have their head covered when they visit the temple. I remember a lady Muslim friend being turned away from another temple for wearing a scarf. When she saw a Christian nun being allowed in, she definitely was not happy. The Malay lady felt discriminated and who in the world like that?Which T-shirt do you think is suitable to be worn in a Buddhist temple or other holy places for that matter?
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