It is also the site of the Temple of the Tooth Relic (the sacred tooth of the Buddha), which is a famous pilgrimage site. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Ce site sacré du ...

Successive kings venerated and protected the Relic as it was soon accepted as the symbol of royalty. The Cola invasion in 947 CE saw the destruction of Buddhist places of worship including the Temple ...

The Buddha's tooth relic is enshrined in Lingguang temple in Beijing and was brought to Thailand for people to pay their respects at Sanam Luang from Dec 4 last year. A formal ceremony on Saturday ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake visited the historic Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, where he paid homage to the Sacred Tooth Relic and received blessings, the President's Media ...

Today the King has been replaced by the Diyawadana Nilame – the lay custodian of the Tooth Relic along with other officials of the Temple of the Tooth. To this day thousands flock the streets of Kandy ...

Sponsored by Buddhist circles in China, the pagoda was constructed at the Temple of Divine Light, second of the eight great sites in the Western Hills to enshrine a relic tooth of Sakyamuni ...

The "Ingi" choreographical presentation, organized by the Pallekele International Buddhist Academy (SIBA), was held on March ...

This morning (23), President Anura Kumara Disanayake visited the historic Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, where he paid homage to the Sacred Tooth Relic and received blessings. Subsequently ...

So, one cloudy afternoon, I head out for a walking tour in the town famous for housing Theravada Buddhism’s most sacred site — Sri Dalada Maligawa, more popularly known as the temple of the tooth ...