Sacred Temple of the Tooth - Kandy Situated in a historic religious meaning in Buddhism, including the octagonal gold cover Sacred Tooth Temple in general, designed between 1687 and 1707, moreover, is simply a beautiful sacred temple, which is certainly believes that the property in general, the upper left canine of the Buddha himself real.

According to be able to legend, the tooth was obtained usually full of real Buddha as he sat on his funeral pyre and smuggled to Sri Lanka covered by hair princess Hemamali, where he survived a major effort to catch up and thus destroy it. Today, this popular religious relic attracts pilgrims dressed in white flowers, lotus, etc, frangipani, every day.

The temple is, in fact, joined so that the true Pattiripuwa (Octagon), designed in 1803, which was generally used originally as a prison but now houses a collection of palm leaf manuscripts. There are many diverse attractions of this historic city Natha Deval particular compound, a sanctuary of stone and the oldest is in particular in Kandy, Mahavishnu Deval, the temple is often quite measure of Vishnu, the protector general of Buddhism in Sri Lanka .