NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 10, 2009: A finger bone believed to belong to the founder of Buddhism was enshrined earlier this month in a 148-meter-high stupa, the world’s highest, in the ancient Famen Temple in northwest China’s Shaanxi province.
The bone, concealed in a golden pagoda-shaped container, was carried past a crowd of 20,000 by senior monks and was enshrined, following Buddhist rituals, in an underground sanctum in the stupa.