Flowers for Buddha
2008-07-17 09:38:31 GMT 2008-07-17 17:38:31 (Beijing Time) SINA.com
(AFP PHOTO/Ishara S. KODIKARA)
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A Sri Lankan woman holds up a pot of jasmine flowers to place before a Buddhist shrine in Kelaniya in Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 17, 2008.
This predominantly Buddhist nation of 20 million people celebrate this day as when Lord Buddha was conceived in his mother's womb.
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