India sends sacred Buddha relics from Sarnath to Sri Lanka

Enshrined at the Mulagandhakuti Vihara at Sarnath, the sacred Buddha relics have been sent to Sri Lanka for public veneration during the annual Vesak/Buddh Purnima festival. Relics were brought to Sri Lanka for first time in nearly a hundred years. This is only the second time these relics, discovered by British archaeologists in colonial India in … Read more