About a century after the death of Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, the ancient Indian King Ashoka decided to distribute a selection of Sakyamuni's relics to many places in the known world where Buddhism had gained adherents. The Famen Temple was awarded a finger bone. This happens to be the third of the four discovered here so far, and it was kept in a five-layered marble chest in a secret niche in the back room. It is tubular-like, 37millimeters long, white and yellow in colour. It has been authenticated as genuine - and the only real one here. The other three are "shadow bones": imitations of identical colour and shape to protect the real one. The first one was kept in an eight-layered chest in the back room.