Two drummers were accompanied by a duo playing little bronze trumpets. The quartet were dressed in white and red robes, that were twisted around their torsos and draped over their legs, and they were ...

Thousands of pilgrims camped overnight outside Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist temple in anticipation of Friday's display of a prized relic that will be shown to the public for the first time in 16 years ...

Christians in Sri Lanka joined groups of Muslims and Hindus to assist some 1 million Buddhist pilgrims, who waited in line for long hours to visit a rare exposition of the Buddha’s tooth relic in ...

Sri Lanka police launched an investigation Sunday into a photo circulated on social media claiming to show a Buddha tooth relic, which has gone on display under tight security. The Criminal ...

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. The pious ...

The gold casket contains the tooth relic of Buddha. It is located in a temple in what was a king’s palace complex in Kandy in Sri Lanka. The 500-year-old city is on a plateau surrounded by hills in ...

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For 2,000 years the Lion flag of Kandy waved defiantly over the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon. Under it the Sinhalese Buddhist kings struggled and connived with invading princes and rival island ...

This sacred Buddhist site, popularly known as the city of Senkadagalapura, was the last capital of the Sinhala kings whose patronage enabled the Dinahala culture to flourish for more than 2,500 years ...