According to the Buddhist community saying, more than 2,500 years ago, Sakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in Kapilavastu(today Nepal) of ancient India. He came into Nirvana at the age of eight. The Buddha’s Relic is a translation of the Sanskrit "Sarira". It means corpse or spiritual bone. The Buddha’s Relic generally can be divided into Buddha-relics and Dharmakaya-relics; whole body relics and crack-relics; Physical body relics and Image-relics; Coloured relics(such as: white bone-relics, black hair-relics and red bodily-relics) and Relics of Buddha’s disciples.According to the Buddhist historical records, Sakyamuni Buddha left one Phalange and two teeth and other relics in the world when his body was cremated after his Nirvana. Now the Phalange relic of Buddha is enshrined in the Famen Temple In Fufeng County, Shaan’xi Province. One of two teeth is enshrined in the Buddha’s Tooth Monastery in Kandy of Sri Lanka, the other one in the Tooth-Relic Pagoda of Ling-guang Monastery of Beijing.
