The central stupa of the Kuthodaw Pagoda houses various sacred relics, most notably tooth relics of the Buddha that were obtained from Sri Lanka. Such relics have long held religious importance in the Buddhist tradition of Myanmar and, more broadly, across the Buddhist world, where they are objects of devotion and pilgrimage.
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