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Relics and their Representaion in Gandhara
| Title: | Relics and their Representaion in Gandhara | | Author: | Behrendt, Kurt | | Publication: | Marg | | Enumeration: | Vol. 54 Issue no. 4, June 2003, p. 76-85 | | Abstract: | The attention paid to Gandharan images of the Buddha has marginalized the significance of relics in the eyes of modern scholars. The interrelationship of Buddha image and stupa containing the Buddha's corporal relic's is examined here. The images were dependent on relics and understood as visible manifestation of the relic's power. Some such structures even housed relics that were accessible for devotion, and where individual sculptural offerings could be made. After the Gandhara period of Buddhist activity (5th-8th century, CE), the image became the primary object of worship. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
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