Tooth Temple in Kandy

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Tooth Temple

Kandy, Sri Lanka

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Dalada Maligava
(temple complex where the tooth of Buddha is housed)

Kandy, city, central Sri Lanka, capital of Central Province, on the Mahaweli River, in the Kandy Plateau. It is one of the island nation's largest cities and the economic focus of the tea-producing central highlands.

 

Temple of the Tooth

Dalada Maligava (the Temple of the Tooth), repository of a sacred Buddhist relic said to be a tooth of the Buddha, is here, and the University of Peradeniya (1942) is nearby. Kandy was the capital of a Sinhalese kingdom from 1592 to 1815, when it became one of the last sections of the island to be annexed by the British as part of colonial Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Population (1990 estimate) 104,000.

 

Temple entrance

 

hallway
(redecorated since the bomb damage in 1998)

 

Buddha statue

 

 

doors

 

tells the story of the tooth being rescued from the
 Sandalwood cremation of Buddha

 

presentation of the tooth to the temple for safekeeping

 

the tooth was displayed to save the country from draught

 

the altar where the tooth is held

 

stupa with processional standards

 

more processional standards

 

Royal Platform next to the temple

 

Anglican church location next to temple grounds

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