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Buddha Memorial Center (佛陀紀念館) of the Fo Guang Shan Monastery in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. [8] Engaku Temple in Kamakura, Japan. [9] Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum (佛牙寺龍華院) in Chinatown, Singapore. [10] Lu Mountain Temple in Rosemead, California [11] [12] Nagarjunakonda, museum on the island situated in the Nagarjunasagar ...
Dāṭhavaṃsa (also known as the Dhātuvansa, Dantadhātu, or Dantadhātuvaṇṇanā) is a Pali chronicle attributed to Dhammakitti Thero. [2] [1] It is sometimes titled in English as "The History of the Tooth Relic" and contains histories and popular traditions associated with the Relic of the tooth of the Buddha. [1]
Sri Dalada Maligawa [a], commonly known in English as the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, is a Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in the Royal Palace Complex of the former Kingdom of Kandy, which houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha. Since ancient times, the relic has played an important role in local politics because ...
The Buddhist games list is a list of games that Gautama Buddha is reputed to have said that he would not play and that his disciples should likewise not play, because he believed them to be a 'cause for negligence'. [1] This list dates from the 6th or 5th century BC and is the earliest known list of games. [2]
Formerly an office of the royal household, at present it is the trustee for the Temple of the Tooth as defined by the Buddhist Temporalities Ordinance of 1931. [1] A ceremonial position, enriched with over two thousand years of history to protect and carry out ancient rituals for the relic of the tooth of the Buddha. The Diyawadana Nilame ...
Most frequently preserved parts of Buddha's body are tooth and bone, because these parts would remain after the rest of the body decayed. (But note that the body of the Buddha was cremated) The relic of the tooth of the Buddha in Sri Lanka is the most notable site where a relic is visibly preserved, but hundreds of such sites were created, in ...
The tooth relic is housed in the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum in the Chinatown district of Singapore. [92] It is claimed the relic was found in a collapsed stupa in Myanmar . [ 93 ]
A unique feature of architecture of ancient Sri Lanka, [4] vatadages were built for the protection of small stupas that had an important relic enshrined in them or were built on hallowed ground. [5] [6] If the Polonnaruwa Vatadage is the shrine built by Parakramabahu I, the relic of the tooth of the Buddha would have been enshrined within it. [7]