This building was constructed to keep the Relic of the tooth of the Buddha.

There's a temple in Sri Lanka dedicated to a tooth of the Buddha.

The Shariden building on the grounds is reputed to contain one of the teeth of the Buddha.

This ritual commences every morning at 4 am or 4.30 am when monks wash the face and brush the teeth of the Buddha image.)

In the third century A.D. Ceylon was still further honoured with a tooth of the Buddha, which has become a national treasure.

Somawathiya Chaitya, a stupa said to be containing a relic of the tooth of the Buddha, is situated within the park.

Many shrines also contain sacred relics, such as the alleged tooth of the Buddha held at a shrine in Sri Lanka.

Aside from the relic in Sri Lanka, several relics in other countries are also reputed to be a tooth of the Buddha.

The temple is believed to have once sheltered the sacred relic of the tooth of the Buddha, circa 340 CE.

It was built by Nissanka Malla, and had been used to keep the Relic of the tooth of the Buddha.

In the 1950s, it hosted a grand ceremony to greet and send on the sacred teeth of the Buddha and so became important in Southeast Asia.

By this time the Relic of the tooth of the Buddha was hidden in Delgamuwa vihara in Sabaragamuwa province.

Gajabahu I (114-136) invaded the Chola kingdom and brought back captives as well as recovering the relic of the tooth of the Buddha.

Annually in Kandy there is a celebration which includes a parade in which the focus is a relic believed to be a tooth of the Buddha.

The attack was symbolic in that the shrine, which houses a sacred tooth of the Buddha, is the holiest Buddhist shrine in Sri Lanka.

This expedition plundered the fortress of Subhagiri (Yapahuwa) and returned with the Relic of the tooth of the Buddha.

Excavations have uncovered remains of the temple of the Relic of the tooth of the Buddha, the Royal Palace, gardens, moats, and city walls.

In Theravada Buddhism, relics are known as cetiya; one of the most significant in the relic of the tooth of the Buddha in Sri Lanka.

Diyawadana Nilame was an office of the Royal household, charged with safeguarding and carrying out ancient rituals for the sacred Relic of the tooth of the Buddha.

Few remains of the Palace of the Tooth relic that housed the tooth of the Buddha have avoided natural destruction, including few stone steps and a part of a doorway.

Some relics believed to be original remains of the body of the Buddha still survive, including the much-revered Sacred Relic of the tooth of the Buddha in Sri Lanka.

E Map Just north of the lake, the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic houses Sri Lanka's most important Buddhist relic - a tooth of the Buddha.

The line to enter Temple of the Tooth, an ancient shrine reputedly containing a tooth of the Buddha, is short, though Lalajith told me that on important festival days, it can stretch for three miles.

Once part of a large palace complex that included the royal court the Magul Maduwa and the Temple of the Tooth that held the Relic of the tooth of the Buddha.

Palipane Sri Chandananda, the then mahanayake thero of the Asgiriya chapter, the chief custodians of the relic of the tooth of the Buddha expressed their deep shock of the attack.