Dunkumbura Rajamaha Viharaya

Dunkumbura Rajamaha Viharaya is a Tampita image house in the Tumpane area of Kandy District, near Hataraliyadda on the district's western edge, built around 1830–1840. The shrine stands raised above ground on granite pillars — twenty-four by some counts, twenty-five by others — approached through a front porch and mandapa, with a circumambulatory path enclosed by a wooden handrail. The raised timber construction kept the painted interior clear of ground damp; the tiled roof and open approach still read as a late Kandyan village temple.

Temple tradition credits the founding to Venerable Ratnapala Thero, who donated his own land for the site before he was ordained. Around 1830 he travelled to Anuradhapura to take robes under Ulpathgama Buddha Rakkitha Thero and returned with a Bodhi sapling taken from the Sri Maha Bodhi, which he planted here; he is said to have built the temple itself in the seventh year after his ordination. The Bodhi tree standing at the site today is not that sapling — it was replanted in 1960, sourced through the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhiya program.

Inside, a square Budu-Ge holds a seated Buddha statue; the walls carry Kandyan-style frescoes, and the temple also keeps statues of Vishnu and Aluth Nuwara Deviyo, an ornate wooden palanquin, and a large wooden coffer painted with scenes from the Wessantara Jataka.