This is Visit Beijing, the Beijing municipal tourism authority's own official account of the Buddha Tooth Relic Stupa at Lingguang Temple, Badachu, describing the relic as a tooth surviving Sakyamuni Buddha's cremation and recounting its passage through many hands to Beijing. As the official tourism authority's own published account it is a correct source for the temple's own presentation of the relic to visitors today. Its limit is that it is a tourism authority's promotional account, not an independent scholarly or archaeological verification of the relic's claimed authenticity or its transmission history, so a claim resting on that authenticity needs a specialist historical source.
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Reliability Tier2
Visit Beijing, the Beijing municipal tourism authority's own official account, a genuine institutional source but a promotional tourism account rather than independent scholarly or archaeological verification, hence the middle tier. NotesOfficial Beijing tourism account of the Buddha Tooth Relic and its stupa at Lingguang Temple, Badachu, describing the relic as a tooth left after the cremation of Sakyamuni Buddha and its passage through many hands to Beijing.
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AuthorVisit Beijing
PublisherVisit Beijing (Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism)
Publication Year2022
URLhttps://english.visitbeijing.com.cn/article/47ON9k0HN9l
Source Typereference
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This source names Beijing directly: "This is Visit Beijing, the Beijing municipal tourism authority's own official account of the Buddha Tooth Relic Stupa at Lingguang Temple, Badachu, describing the relic as a tooth surviving..."
Source Buddha Tooth Relic Stupa, Lingguang Temple (Visit Beijing official)Visit Beijing
Claims Backed By This Source (26 claims)
This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 3 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Open Questions, 11 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Artifacts & Relics, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 open question, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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