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Strong, John S.
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| Date | 2004.07.26 |
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| Pages | 312 |
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| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
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http://pup.princeton.edu/
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| Location | Princeton, NJ, US [普林斯顿, 紐澤西州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series
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| Keyword | 本生經=Jataka; 末法思想=法滅說=Eschatology; 佛身觀=Buddhology=Buddha-kaya; 佛舍利=Buddha Relics; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 佛學研究=佛教學=Buddhist Studies=Buddhology; 苯教=Bon; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 浮圖=浮屠=佛塔=stupa=pagoda ; 涅槃=Parinibbana=Nibbana=Nirvana; 菩薩=Bodhisattva; 闍陀迦=本生=Jataka; 彌勒菩薩=Maitreya=Miruk; 釋迦牟尼佛=Sakyamuni |
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| Abstract | 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 essence of Buddhism.
John Strong's book, by contrast, argues that relic veneration has played a serious and integral role in Buddhist traditions in South and Southeast Asia-and that it is in no way foreign to Buddhism.
The book is structured around the life story of the Buddha, starting with traditions about relics of previous buddhas and relics from the past lives of the Buddha Sakyamuni. It then considers the death of the Buddha, the collection of his bodily relics after his cremation, and stories of their spread to different parts of Asia.
The book ends with a consideration of the legend of the future parinirva na su tra (extinction) of the relics prior to the advent of the next Buddha, Maitreya. Throughout, the author does not hesitate to explore the many versions of these legends and to relate them to their ritual, doctrinal, artistic, and social contexts.
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| Table of contents |
Preface
Note and Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION: Relics of the Buddha
Relics and the Biographical Process
Types of Buddha Relics
Relics, Bones, and Burial Practices in India and Beyond
Relics and Images
Limitations of This Study
Outline
CHAPTER ONE: Relics of Previous Buddhas
Sakyamuni and His Predecessors
Past Buddhas, Relics, and Soteriology
The Case of Kasyapa and His Stupa
Relics Dispersed and Not Dispersed
Conclusion
CHAPTER TWO: Relics of the Bodhisattva
Relics and the Jatakas
Bodhisattva Relics in the Final Birth as Gautama
Conclusion
CHAPTER THREE: Relics of the Still-Living Buddha: Haris and Footprints
Hair and Nail Relics
Footprints
Conclusion
CHAPTER FOUR: The Parinirvana of the Buddha
The Duties to the Corpse
The Funeral of a Cakravartin
The Corpse's Clothing
The Iron Coffin
The Veneration of the Buddha's Body
Cremation
Collection, Dispute, and Distribution: The "War of the Relics"
The Construction of the Stupas
Conclusion
CHAPTER FIVE: Asoka and the Buddha Relics
The Collection of the Relics
The Construction of the 84,000 Stupas
The Festival of the Relics
Conclusion
CHAPTER SIX: Predestined Relics: The Extension of the Buddha's Life Story in Some Sri Lankan Traditions
The Transplanting of the Bodhi Tree and the Multiplication of Relics
The Collarbone Relic and Its Enshrinement in the Thuparama
Dutthagamani, the Ramagrama Relics, and the Mahathupa
Conclusion
CHAPTER SEVEN: Further Extensions of the Buddha's Life Story: Some Tooth Relic Traditions
The Kashmiri Tooth: Relics and Elephants
The Eyeteeth of the Buddhas
The Kalingan/Sri Lankan Tooth
The Tours of the Chinese Tooth
Conclusion
CHAPTER EIGHT: Relics and Eschatology
The Buddha's Bowl: A Recycled Relic
The Buddha's Robe
Conclusion
CONCLUSIONS
Relics and the Biographical Process
Relics and Buddhology
Relics and the Spread of Buddhism
The Episodic Nature of Buddha-relics
Relics and the Demands of Darsan
Relics and Polity
Strategies of Legitimation
Relics as Performative Objects
The Dialectic of Continuity and Discontinuity
Bibliography
Index
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| ISBN | 0691117640 (hc) |
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| Hits | 616 |
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| Created date | 2005.03.25
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