Cover of Relics of the Buddha (Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series)

Relics of the Buddha (Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series)

by John S. Strong

2004 312 pages eng

"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 American scholars of r…

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