Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism: Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition by Kevin Trainor

Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism: Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition

Kevin Trainor

240 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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Western scholarship has largely ignored the practice of venerating the physical remains of the Buddha, a practice that has been a central focus of both monastic and lay Buddhists for more than two millennia. This study draws on textual and archaeo...

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