Sri Dalada Maligawa

I think the length of the Buddhist faith centers, Chi (Sri Dalada Maligawa), Kandy is located in a beautiful 17th century to accommodate the upper left corner of the Lord Buddha himself songgotnieul. This precious relic, the lotus flower and frangipani, every bearing, attracting white-clad sunryejaeul.

History

.Lay on his funeral pyre, according to legend, the tooth was taken from the Buddhas. Besieged Hindu army fled, her Hemamali's head hidden in his father's kingdom in India to Sri Lanka in 313 AD It smuggled

It was a big fear of nested jewelry, reliquaries was enshrined in a series of teeth for special occasions and brought to the statue of elephants are sacred listed marched. That many attempts to capture and destroy the living place.
Serious teeth move to a new city and award construction has been placed in the temple when the capital was moved to Kandy, the temple was originally built between 1687 and 1707 in the Kandyan king, but later of the 18th century, Portuguese and Dutch colonial wars were damaged during the After the war, the original wooden structures were restored in stone.
January 1998 Hindu Tamil separating the exterior and roof damage, the temple bombing. Restoration began immediately thereafter.