Festival of the Tooth

Ok…Now that’s a first!! I rather feel bad for the elephant, though. I’d hate having a row of lights going down my nose!

It certainly does look celebratory!

That’s quite a sight. They may or may not have electricity in their homes, but the elephant has gotta have it

what is the source of the power of relics?

what is the source of the power of relics?

It never occurred to me that relics have any power.

They believe it rains when Tooth relic is taken from where it is placed. They believe it has power to give you protection.

The tooth relic is about the size of a leopard’s.

The hair relic is longer than hair from a pony tail.

Some other country has a tooth relic about the size of a hipopotemas!

The Buddha himself some times did not have water to drink. He was an average sized human being.

They spend large somes of money for the festival of tooth relic.

If Buddha him self returns even by accident he will really regret what is practised by his followers today and run away from Buddhist countries!

Buddha was the unique teacher who asked not to beleive. See what these poor beleivers do.

Hah! This is funny!
The story of the tooth goes like this.
A merchant (sorry, can’t remember where he was from) often traveled to India in the days when travel was a very arduous and dangerous task. His mother was a Buddhist and begged her son to bring back a relic of the Buddha. He went on a couple of trips and always forgot about the relic, much to mothers dismay. On his third trip he was almost home and remembered his promise to his mother. Finding a dead dog by the roadside, he pulled one of its teeth and told his mother it was the Buddhas tooth. Much to his surprise his mother in her delight, ran about the town performing miracles with it. So to ‘Wondering’, I think this story says something about relics. What that is I am not sure…
Sukhmandir Kaur is a very funny fellow!
Fitz

Hey I’ve been there on holiday it’s pretty breath taking!