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The Kanishka Casket, dated to 127 CE, with the Buddha. The Lokapannatti, a collection of stories written in the 11th or 12th century, tells the story of Ajātasattu of Magadha (c. 492 – c. 460 BCE) who gathered the Buddha's relics and hid them in an underground stupa. [6]
A Buddha footprint, showing the Buddhist wheel and a larger-than-life foot. Another extremely common paribhoga cetiya is the Buddha footprint, which are found across the Buddhist world symbolizing the ground that Buddha walked on and the powerful size of his dhammakāya. Sometimes these footprints are also classed as udesaka, a representation ...
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 ...
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Sri Angulimala Maha Stupa shining in the middle of the beautiful paddy with a height of approximately 120 feet is a great stupa housing 8 relics of Lord Buddha and 1000 relics of Angulimala Maharahath Thera. Sri Angulimala Maha Stupa is the only stupa in the world that has the largest number of relics of Angulimala Maharahath Thera.
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]
From 5–12 May 1987, after the opening of an underground palace, four relics claimed to be directly related to Buddha were found. [6] Two of these were made of white jade. The third relic was from a famous monk. These three are called "duplicate relics" (影骨). They were placed together with a "true relic" (靈骨) in order to protect them ...
Brekke calls the return of the relics of Sariputta and Moggallana to Asia the greatest achievement and "the most significant historical point of reference" of the Maha Bodhi Society of India, matched only by the role the society played in the return of relics of the Buddha himself. [54] The relics were received in India in a massive ceremony ...