BUDDHA HEAD, 6TH-7TH CENTURY. CORAL STONE, 43 X 40 X 51 CM. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MALDIVES. PHOTO: MICHAEL O'SHEA - TAASA Review June 2012

BUDDHA HEAD, 6TH-7TH CENTURY. CORAL STONE, 43 X 40 X 51 CM. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MALDIVES. PHOTO: MICHAEL O’SHEA – TAASA Review June 2012

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This article was originally found in the June 2012 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 21, Issue 2, Page 16).

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idiosyncratic, that really fascinated me.

Tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism was present in Sri Lanka, however a council of 1160 suppressed all but Theravadan forms of Buddhist practice there (Snelling 1990: 29).

Coomaraswarmy noted that he found no extant examples of Tantric Buddhist art in `Ceylon’ (Coomaraswarmy 1985:167)...