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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- 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