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Teeth, bones and blessings: At Rosemead Buddhist temple, relics inspire belief

Katherine Nguyen stood with hands folded and head bowed at the altar of a Buddhist temple in Rosemead. Before her were tooth and finger bone relics that the faithful believed to belong to Shakyamuni ...
The Durango Herald

Relics transform Buddhist temple

ROSEMEAD, Calif. – Although he’d been a practicing Buddhist for 20 years, until 10 months ago Dharma Master YongHua hadn’t even seen so much as one of the sacred relics known as shariras that are so ...