Sri Lanka, Jan. 21 -- The veneration of the Sacred Relics, which are due to be brought to Sri Lanka with the intervention of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and with the full patronage of the government of India, will be held at the Hunupitiya Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo for seven days from 4 to 11 February.

A discussion to review the preliminary organisational arrangements was held today (21) at the Presidential Secretariat under the patronage of the Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs, Ananda Wijepala, and the Secretary to the President, Dr Nandika Sanath Kumanayake.

The corporeal relics of the Buddha, discovered during excavations carried out in the 1960s in the state of Gujarat, have never previously been tak...