Buddha's remains flown to HK for public worship
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The Buddha's remains. [Photo: Xinhua] |
A rare piece of the parietal bone of Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, was flown to Hong Kong from east China's Jiangsu province on Wednesday for public worship.
The Buddha's remains, or sarira, left the Lukou Airport in the provincial capital of Nanjing by a chartered plane at 12:30 p.m., marking the first time the sacred remains will be worshipped outside the Chinese mainland since being unearthed in June 2010 in Nanjing.
On Wednesday morning, a grand ceremony was held in Nanjing's Qixia Temple, where the remains had been enshrined prior to being flown to Hong Kong. Over 1,000 people attended the ceremony, including eminent Buddhist monks from the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao.
The remains are scheduled to be enshrined in the Hong Kong Coliseum from April 25 to 30, and will then be sent to the Macao East Asian Games Dome for public worship until May 4.
The worship event is being jointly hosted by the Buddhist Association of China, the Hong Kong Buddhist Association, an organizing committee in Macao and the Buddhist Association of Jiangsu.
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