Sacred Buddha Tooth Relics and Relics in the World

Famous Chinese Monks Who Viewed The Buddha Tooth

Sacred Buddha Tooth Relics in the World

Other Sacred Relics of the Buddha in the World

Xuan Zang (602 – 664 AD)

Xuanzang (Chinese: 玄奘; pinyin: Xuán Zàng; Wade–Giles: Hsüan-tsang Sanskrit:ह्वेनसांग ) (c. 602 – 664) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator who described the interaction between China and India in the early Tang period.

He became famous for his seventeen year overland journey to India, which is recorded in detail in his autobiography as well as a biography, both of which provided the inspiration for the epic novel Journey to the West.

Po-Ho (Balkh, Baktria)
Navasangharama convent: "Again, there is a tooth of the Buddha about an inch long, and about eight or nine tenths of an inch in breath. Its colour is yellowish white; it is pure and shining."

Fan-Yen-Na (Bamiyan)
"There is a sangharama here with a tooth of the Buddha, also the tooth of a Pratyeka Buddha"

Kia-Pi-Shi (Kapisa)
"To the north-west of the capital there is a large river on the southern bank of which, in a convent of an old king, there is a milk-tooth of Sakya Bodhisattva; it is an inch in length."

Na-Kie-Lo-Ho (Nagarahara)
"Within the city is the ruined foundation of a great stupa. Tradition says that it once contained a tooth of Buddha, and that it was high and of great magnificence. Now it has no tooth, but only the ancient foundations remain."

Hi-Lo (Hadda)
"In the second storey is a little stupa, made of the seven precious substances: it contains the skull-bone of Tathagata; it is 1 foot 2 inches round; the hair orifices are distinct; its colour is a whitish-yellow."

"Again there is another little stupa, made of the seven precious substances, which encloses the skull-bone of Tathagata. Its shape is like a lotus leaf; its colour is the same as that of the other, and it is also contained in a precious casket, sealed up and fastened."

"Again, there is another little stupa, made of the seven precious substances, in which is deposited the eye-ball of Tathgata, large as an Amra fruit and bright and clear thoughout; this also is deposited in a precious casket sealed up and fastened."

Kia-Shi-Mi-Lo (Kasmir)
Adhishthana, "is a sangharama with about 300 priests in it. In the stupa is a tooth of Buddha in length about one inch and a half, of a yellowish-white colour; on religious days it emits a bright light."

Kie-Jo-Kio-She-Kwo (Kanyakubja)
"In a precious casket in the vihara is a tooth of Buddha, about one and half inches in length, very bright, and of different colours at morning and night."

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