Relics of Buddah

kukku baba

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  • Nov 14, 2009
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    [FONT=MS Sans Serif, Tahoma]The dissipation of Buddha’s relics after having been separated in to 8 parts were moved to different places. After the Buddha’s cremation, the history said that Ven. Maha Kassapa and King Ajatasatru joined to do a wish to invite the separated Buddha’s relics back to install in the same place to protect from loss due to the war. At the end of the history it is said that the person who invited the Buddha’s relics and disseminated them was King Asoka.[/FONT]
    [FONT=MS Sans Serif, Tahoma]According to the prayer books for worship the places where those 7 exceptional pieces of Buddha’s relics (non-scattered) are installed is as follows:[/FONT]
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    [FONT=MS Sans Serif, BrowalliaUPC]1. His upper right canine tooth to be installed in Culamani Shrine in [FONT=Arial Unicode MS, Tahoma]Tāvatiṃsā[/FONT] (the second heavenly abode).[/FONT] [FONT=MS Sans Serif, Tahoma]2. His upper left canine tooth to be installed in [FONT=Arial Unicode MS, Tahoma]Gandhāra Kingdom [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=MS Sans Serif, Tahoma]3. His lower right canine tooth to be installed in Sri Lanka [/FONT] [FONT=MS Sans Serif, Tahoma]4. His lower left canine tooth to be installed in the Naga world [/FONT] [FONT=MS Sans Serif, Tahoma]5. His right collarbone to be installed in Culamani Shrine in [FONT=Arial Unicode MS, Tahoma]Tāvatiṃsā [/FONT][/FONT]
    [FONT=MS Sans Serif, Tahoma]6. His left collarbone[/FONT][FONT=MS Sans Serif, Tahoma] to be installed in Dusasa Shrine in Brahmaloka (the Brahma world) [/FONT]
    [FONT=MS Sans Serif, Tahoma]7. His frontal bone to be installed in Dusasa Shrine in Brahmaloka [/FONT]