A showcase of relics: The temple’s fifth-generation abbot Khoo Poh Ong, 87, (second right) looking on as committee members check a handwritten sutra. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star
GEORGE TOWN: A recent discovery of a date behind the cover of a handwritten sutra (scriptures book) kept at the Tow Boh Keong Temple here has revealed that it dates further back than what was originally believed.
Temple committee member Lee Leik Senn said the temple, considered to be the oldest in Penang, knew that the scriptures book has existed for more than a century, but now there is proof that it dates back to 1821.
