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"Buddhism is popularly seen as 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 America...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strong, John, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2004]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Buddha.
Buddha, > approximately 480-approximately 400 B.C.
Buddha > v563-v483
Gautama Buddha.
Gautama Buddha > Relics > Southeast Asia.
Gautama Buddha > Relics > South Asia.
Relikwieën.
Boeddhisme.
Reliquie
Stūpas.
Relics.
Buddhist shrines.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
11.93 Buddhism.
Stūpas > Asie du Sud-Est > Histoire.
Stūpas > Asie meridionale > Histoire.
Sanctuaires bouddhiques > Asie du Sud-Est.
Sanctuaires bouddhiques > Asie meridionale.
Stūpas > Southeast Asia > History.
Stūpas > South Asia > History.
Buddhist shrines > Southeast Asia.
Buddhist shrines > South Asia.
Southeast Asia.
South Asia.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Relics of previous Buddhas
  • Relics of the Bodhisattva
  • Relics of the still-living Buddha : hairs and footprints
  • The Parinirvāṇa of the Buddha
  • Aśoka and the Buddha relics
  • Predestined relics : the extension of the Buddha's life story in some Sri Lankan traditions
  • Further extensions of the Buddha's life story : some tooth relic traditions
  • Relics and eschatology.

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