Relics of the Buddha / / John S. Strong.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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