An interesting distraction away from the hustle and bustle of Chinatown is the Buddha’s Tooth Relic Museum. The five-story building, with an outdoor garden on the roof is eye-catching with its ...

Sri Lankan authorities are urging people to stop flocking to the city of Kandy to see a sacred relic after four people died and hundreds fell ill from spending long hours in overcrowded queues. The ...

Devotees rest on the pavement under a scaffold to queue overnight at Sri Lank's holiest Buddhist temple, the Temple of the Tooth, in the central pilgrim city of Kandy on April 18, 2025, ahead of an ...

Police reported that an estimated 125,000 people worshipped the relic on the first day of the display - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA Police reported that an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Buddhist devotees are flocking to the city of Kandy for a rare glimpse of a Buddhist relic on displace for the first time in 16 years - Copyright AFP Ishara S ...