The Temple of the Tooth Relic of the Buddha at Kandy
The interior compound of the temple buildings has a combination of richly carved beautiful inner shrine (left/topmost picture) and more modern (right/bottom picture) Sinhalese architecture. The Tooth Relic (left upper canine tooth) of the Buddha is believed to be housed in the 2 storey inner shrine.
The exterior, beautiful park with beautiful sky makes a wonderful view
At a connecting tower, one can see the oldest ola leaf book and many other precious leaf book.
There is also a museum in memory of the elephant whom had been carrying the sacred tooth relic during the past yearly festival parade and whom had lived to high age of over 80 years old.
It is a place worth visiting especially during Full-moon day (every full moon day of the month is their public holiday so they have at least 12 days of leave each year excluding other leave entitlement!) where at the garden compound you can see many locals observing the 8 Precepts (their culture to wear all white).
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