Ambassador Dr Palitha Kohona was taken to visit the spectacular Unisa Palace (Foding) Temple built from 2012 - 2015 to house the skull bone relic of the Buddha at a cost of 5 billion yuan. According to archeological records, the relic had been brought to China from Sri Lanka around 980 AD. (This was during the chaos of the Chola invasions of Sri Lanka). Entry into the inner chamber is strictly controlled (Only a limited number of visitors, no phones, no photos and the sacred relic is kept in a bullet proof glass reliquary). The huge dome of the temple is designed to resemble the pictorial representations of Shakyamuni's head and a giant concrete canopy intended to stylistically represent the Bodhi Tree spreads its branches above.

The relic which had been hidden in stone reliquary at the nearby Da Bao'en Temple by the chief monk of the time, Abbot Deming around 997 AD was rediscovered in 2008. 

The Unisa Palace Temple occupies a massive abandoned iron ore mine on top of the Niu Shue Mountain.

Embassy of Sri Lanka 

Beijing 

14 November, 2021