Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Kandy Emailing: tooth_temple

 

 

 

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.

 

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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.
 

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Temple entrance

 

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hallway
(redecorated since the bomb damage in 1998)

 

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Buddha statue

 

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doors

 

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

 

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presentation of the tooth to the temple for safekeeping

 

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the tooth was displayed to save the country from draught

 

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the altar where the tooth is held

 

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stupa with processional standards

 

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more processional standards

 

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Royal Platform next to the temple

 

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Anglican church location next to temple grounds

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