A pilgrim’s encounter
I encountered the idea of truth without needing to break it down into fragments: The whole truth, untouched by skepticism or doubt.
A preset route of a pilgrimage around the predominantly Buddhist Sri Lanka ultimately leads to Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, where the most sacred relic, said to be a tooth from Buddha, is enshrined. Every day, the temple receives an extraordinary number of visitors, who celebrate the ideal life of the religious teacher and his timeless virtues in the same fervor as the Hajj in Arabia or any major holy expedition elsewhere in the world.
Photographs by Vernon Velasco for the Daily Tribune
