Devotees who had camped overnight outside the Temple of the Tooth complained that they were confined to a holding area after security checks and were deprived of food and water for hours.

The house of the chief custodian of the historic temple where the sacred tooth relic of Buddha in central Sri Lanka has been placed, came under a grenade attack, prompting authorities to deploy ...

The artefact is housed in the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, a Unesco world heritage site known locally as the Sri Dalada Maligawa. The relic is on public display for the first time since 2009.

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.

Devotees are frisked before being allowed into the sacred area of the Temple of the Tooth in the central city of Kandy. No bags or parcels are permitted, while the use of mobile phones is also ban ...

We discover this as we assemble in the lobby of a Kandy hotel ahead of our departure to one of the most sacred Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka: the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic. Temple of the ...

Kandy (Sri Lanka) (AFP) – 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 ...

Devotees are frisked before being allowed into the sacred area of the Temple of the Tooth in the central city of Kandy. No bags are permitted while the use of mobile phones is also banned inside ...

Devotees are frisked before being allowed into the sacred area of the Temple of the Tooth in the central city of Kandy. No bags or parcels are permitted, while the use of mobile phones is also ban ...