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Article: Embodying the Dharma; Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia.(Book review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 2006
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Embodying the Dharma; Buddhist Relic Veneration in Asia. Edited by DAVID GERMANO and KEVIN TRAINOR. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2004. Pp. 201. $40.
Studies on Buddhist relics have been issued abundantly in recent years. We are still far from saturation. Attention to the worship of relics, an aspect neglected if not despised by Buddhology for so long, has opened an innovative vision of the history of this religion and also allowed new approaches to an interpretation of the "sacred," one of the main preoccupations of religious studies. The reader is told (p. 185) that the present book is the culmination of a seminar on Buddhist Relic Veneration that ...
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