The Kataragama Perahera in Sri Lanka is held ... as Jaffna in Sri Lanka’s northern peninsula. Kataragama’s main temple of the Maha Devala is dedicated to the Hindu God of War, Skanda.

It ranks among the very first temples in Sri Lanka, founded by Devanampiyatissa, the first Buddhist king. It is to the Aluvihare temple that you must go to absorb traditions of Sri Lankan Buddhism ...