Lingguang Temple and the Buddha Tooth Relic Pagoda, Badachu

This is the Buddhist Association of China's own custodial account of Lingguang Temple and the Buddha Tooth Relic Pagoda at Badachu in Beijing, the temple administered under the national Buddhist association that enshrines what is venerated as a tooth relic of the Buddha in its modern relic pagoda. As the custodian institution's own record it is authoritative for the temple's current administration, the relic's enshrinement and the temple's own account of its history. Its limit is that it is a religious institution's self-account rather than an independent scholarly history, so a claim about the relic's contested provenance, including the competing claims made for other tooth relics venerated elsewhere in the Buddhist world, needs an independent historical or archaeological source rather than the custodian temple's own devotional description of what it holds.