Thousands of pilgrims camped overnight outside Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple in anticipation of Friday's display of a ...

In all of Ceylon, no relic is considered holier or more miraculous than the supposed tooth of Lord Buddha encased in the innermost of seven gold caskets in the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...