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MEET RAJA 🐘 the elephant who carried buddha’s tooth relic for 50 YEARS 😳 His name’s Raja, and he was basically the most important elephant in all of Sri Lanka! Every year, he carried the golden casket that held Buddha’s sacred tooth relic during the country’s biggest religious parade. When he died in 1988, people were devastated and the government even declared him a National Treasure. Instead of burying him, they preserved his body inside the Temple of the Tooth museum… so.. yup, you can stil

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