The small Buddhist community in Bangladesh has gifted a few strands of a lock of hair said to have come from the Buddha to Sri Lanka as a goodwill gesture, an official said yesterday.
"The gift of Buddha's hair will raise friendship and goodwill between the two countries," Ajit Ranjan Barua of the Bangladesh Buddhist Association told DPA.
Bangladesh’s interim Foreign Minister Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury handed over the sacred hair relic to his Sri Lankan counterpart Rohitha Bogollagama at a religious ceremony in Chittagong.
News via Earth Times, Ceylon Daily News
Jul 19, 2007
Bangladesh gifts Buddha's relic
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