This object titles a 2021 book by John S. Strong that analyzes claims of its destruction by Gaspar de Leão. Women used flower trays to conceal weapons during a 1989 attempt by the JVP to steal this object, which is held in a series of seven nested golden caskets, each adorned with a different gemstone. The building housing this object features a golden ceramic tiled canopy that was damaged in a 1998 suicide bombing by a wing of the LTTE called the Black Tigers. Anawrahta received a replica of this object as a gift after he sent monks to the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa. According to the Dāṭhavaṃsa, the princess Hemamala smuggled this object out of Kalinga by hiding it in her hair after the arhat Khema took this object from its original owner’s funeral pyre. For 10 points, a temple next to the Royal Palace of Kandy enshrines what sacred symbol of the Sinhalese rulers of Sri Lanka? ■END■
ANSWER: tooth of the Buddha [or tooth relic of Gautama Buddha; or danta dhātu; or dat dhātu; accept The Buddha’s Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic; prompt on relic of Gautama Buddha, Buddhist relic, danta, dhātu, cetiya, or sharīra] (JVP stands for Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. The LTTE is the Tamil Tigers.)
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