Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism
Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition
Series: Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions; 10;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 13 June 1997
- ISBN 9780521582803
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 236x160x19 mm
- Weight 460 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This study examines the place of relic veneration in the history of South Asian Buddhism.
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This book is a serious study of relic veneration among South Asian Buddhists. Drawing on textual sources and archaeological evidence from India and Sri Lanka, including material rarely examined in the West, it looks specifically at the practice of relic veneration in the Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist tradition. The author portrays relic veneration as a technology of remembrance and representation which makes present the Buddha of the past for living Buddhists. By analysing the abstract ideas, emotional orientation and ritual behaviour centred on the Buddha's material remains, he contributes to the 'rematerializing' of Buddhism which is currently under way among Western scholars. This book is an excellent introduction to Buddhist relics. It is well written and accessible and will be read by scholars and serious students of Buddhism and religious studies for years to come.
"A carefully researched and theoretically engaged study.... A first-rate analysis that belongs in every academic library with significant holdings on Buddhism." John Clifford Holt, Religious Studies Review
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Orientations; 2. Buddhist relic veneration in India; 3. Relics and the establishment of the Buddhist sasana in Sri Lanka; 4. Paradigms of presence; 5. Ritual and the presence of the Buddha; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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