Relics and relic worship in early buddhism : India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma

Weitere Verfasser: Stargardt, Janice , [HerausgeberIn]
Willis, Michael D., 1951- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London : British Museum Press, [2018].
Umfang/Format: 123 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 218
ISBN: 9780861592180
0861592182
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Relics: the heart of Buddhist veneration / Peter Skilling
  • Cetiya and Thūpa: the textual sources / Lance Cousins
  • The Buddhist remains of Passani and Bimaran and related relic deposits from South-eastern Afghanistan in the Masson Collection of the British Museum / Elizabeth Errington
  • The Bimaran Casket: the problem of its date and significance / Joe Cribb
  • Offerings to the triple gem: texts, inscriptions and ritual practice / Michael Willis
  • Relics exposed: rules and practices from art-historical, epigraphic and literary sources/ Karel van Kooij
  • The great silver reliquary from Sri Ksetra: early Buddhist art meets early Pali inscriptions in the Pyu cultura of Burma (Myanmar) / Janice Stargardt.