The Buddha's Tooth is Still Growing

These two teeth of Shakyamuni Buddha are nearly 3 inches long, and have been growing in size since the time the Buddha entered Nirvana about 3000 years ago. These are the only known teeth relics of the Buddha in the United States, and are part of a collection of over 10000 relics that were donated to Lu Mountain Temple, in Rosemead, CA, earlier in 2013. For more information, please visit:

This website has information about the relics, and also describes the vision to build a stupa to enshrine the relics, somewhere in Southern California, which will be a major monument to Mahayana Buddhism.

[mackiedaren]

I'm a buddhist. I want the scientist find out how the tooth keep growing. It will be wonderful. All of asian countries with buddhism believe this. It's a mysthry but I think there's some reason. The buddha said everything is nature. So I agreed! I believe there's a natural and scientific reason how it grow.

[skipper]

Remember still the world's oldest human planted tree in srilanka.it is a branch of bodh gaya bodhi tree😌.it is still exist in 🇱🇰 .anuradhapura

[allblacks]

I think what Buddha mentioned and requested from human kind was to focus on the Buddhism philosophy .. not about the material things which will not help anyone to obtain anything. Whether it is actually lord buddha's tooth or not really doesn't matter, if someone is following true Buddhism philosophy. It is how you understand universal truth, it is about 1. Suffer 2. why you suffer 3. detachment of suffering 4. the path to get permeant detachment of suffering.

[sukita]

According to the Buddhist text/Tipitaka, Relics of any arahant/Enlightened one can be worshiped by building a statue for keeping it.
It will remind normal people to make virtues and practice dhamma in daily life.

[SomitPal]

Thanks a lot for preserving lord Buddha’s relics

[bimsaragimshan]

There are lot of sacred relics of lord buddha's in sri lanka.

[williamlao]

IT A SYMBOL BUDDHA IS ALIVE N GUIDING US FOR A BETTER HUMAN BEING.

[tristx]

True Buddhism is not to worship any gods or so-called "relics", instead the philosophy lays in believing in yourself and the people around you to set yourself free. All these places use statues and relics as a means to attract attention, which ultimately provides financial support.

[puspaghimire]

Respect from nepal...budhaa born place

[bangbros-]

Come to Nepal if you Really want to see the origin of buddha . Lumbini, Nepal .

[lighturself]

buddha himself said don"t believe just someone telling my tooth is growing ! come and see, check if that true or not .

[waaao]

There are two teeth of Budha are kept safe in Taxila Museum Pakistan.

[jyotigoswami]

When buddha died after that he himself wanted his ashes to be in special places in stupas you can say so It was divided into 8 different stupa but during Ashoka's reign he collected all the material and ashes and it is said that he built 84000 stupas in different locations it maybe an exaggeration as well but it is said like that

[rsingh]

The tooth does continue to grow in size if its not being used. When in use, the friction while chewing and gnawing ensures it remains the same size. This is in all probability the real tooth of Buddha. Its not a Fake as some fools are proclaiming here! And yes he was a vegetarian, not a carnivore so tooth shape resembles and in line with his eating habits!

[Josh-lpek]

I call bullshit when he said “prosperity”. It’s not a budhist way to “prosper” since doing so will attach yourself to worldly things.

[XandriaRavenheart]

Okay, that tooth looks pretty fake. The Buddha wasn't some larger-than-life God, he was a man who like a lotus bloomed up from the mud to realize enlightenment. His idea of Buddhism was not worshipping his leftover bones and teeth.

[mahensiri]

THAT'S NOT A HUMAN TOOTH 😂
SOME HERBIVORE TOOTH.
Anyone can check images of cow, deer, horse, or other smaller herbivore teeth and compare with human teeth.
I wonder whose idea is it to showcase this tooth as the Buddha's tooth in modern world !!!

[s.d.s.]

Notice there is no photo graphic evidence of the tooth still growing.

[arjunmurali]

With that tooth as DNA, we can make buddha born again in future. So, that he can teach us again!

[philthoreson]

Thats the tooth of a herbivore, likely cow or horse. It is very clearly not a human tooth.