Tooth Temple
Kandy, Sri Lanka
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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