Relics of the Buddha /
Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth, and other bodily bits said to come from the historic Buddha? Early European and American scholars of re...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- TABLES
- PREFACE
- NOTE AND ABBREVIATIONS
- Introduction. RELICS OF THE BUDDHA
- Chapter One. RELICS OF PREVIOUS BUDDHAS
- Chapter Two. RELICS OF THE BODHISATTVA
- Chapter Three. RELICS OF THE STILL-LIVING BUDDHA: HAIRS AND FOOTPRINTS
- Chapter Four. THE PARINIRVANA OF THE BUDDHA
- Chapter Five. ASOKA AND THE BUDDHA RELICS
- Chapter Six. PREDESTINED RELICS: THE EXTENSION OF THE BUDDHA'S LIFE STORY IN SOME SRI LANKAN TRADITIONS
- Chapter Seven. FURTHER EXTENSIONS OF THE BUDDHA'S LIFE STORY: SOME TOOTH RELIC TRADITIONS
- Chapter Eight. RELICS AND ESCHATOLOGY
- CONCLUSIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX