[PDF.47yc] Relics of the Buddha (Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series)

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

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 | #3318167 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2004-08-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.88 x6.14l,1.34 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Fantastic text, so-so printing.|By Verre|This is a magnificent book, very well-researched and touching on such fascinating topics. For anyone under the disturbingly commonplace yet revisionist impression that Buddhism is a "philosophy" and not a religion, this analysis of the tradition relic worship would be a helpful corrective. The book's scholarly merits deserve a full five-

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 religion, influenced by a characteristic Protestant bias against relic worship, declared such practices to be superstitious and fraudulent, and far from the true e...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Relics of the Buddha (Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series)   |  John S. Strong. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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