The first photo below shows a dead body being carried past the sacred Tooth Temple in downtown Kandy. The next photo is another picture of the famous Tooth Temple in Kandy. The third photo shows my friend Rene Thompson charging the police in Kandy. (Rene is the dark skinned man in the front row to the left.)

Maligawa - The Tooth Temple in Kandy after a bomb blast

The Tooth Temple is so-named because the actual tooth of Lord Buddha is said to be there. For this reason, the Tamil Tigers (presumably) tried to blow it up. Here is an article about Eight Killed in Truck Bombing at Kandy, Sri Lanka Buddhist Site.

Here is a carefully worded article about the Tigers of Kandy entitled My Mynah Bird.

Here is a link: Why is there a War in Sri Lanka?

Rene Thompson, the man in the photo above, introduced me to Oprah Perez and her mother. This nearly got me killed, but that was not the fault of Oprah or her mother or of Rene Thompson.

Other girls I know in Kandy include Dhammika Abeysinghe and Neetah.

However, the most important girl I met in Kandy was Rankoth Pedigedera Dayawathie, who was introduced to me by her mother Ukkuamma Rankoth

• Dayawathie's Home Page
• Kandy Esala Perahara
• Why is Kandy called Kandy?
• Tea Wars - Indian Opposition to Sri lanka Tea Unfounded - Broker
• She Don't Know Nothing About No Tigers
• Sri Lankan Refugee Family Just Released from INS Detention Center
• Live BBC News Broadcast in Sinhala language
• New Official web site of the Government of Sri Lanka
• Movie review of "Elephant Walk" starring Elizabeth Taylor
• Inconsistency at I.N.S. Complicates Refugees' Asylum Quest
• All-Kandyans Website
• The Tooth Temple "Dalada Maligawa"
• The City As Text : The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom (Cambridge Human Geography) by James S. Duncan
• Rituals of the Kandyan State by H. L. Seneviratne
• Sri Lanka Web Ring
• Wanted: Velupillai Prabakaran (Good for Laughs!)
• New York Sri Lankan Buddhist Vihara
• Search Sri Lanka Links