Buddha-Relics in the Lives of Southern Asian Polities

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ID5825681
AutoresAnne M Blackburn (0000-0001-5378-3932, Cornell University, autor correspondente), Anne Blackburn (1Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA;, Email: [email protected])
Ano2010
Volume57
Fascículo3-4
Páginas317-340
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNumen (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0029-5973 • E-ISSN: 1568-5276
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/156852710x501333
OpenAlexW2059291754
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

Drawing on literary and inscriptional evidence from Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia, this essay examines the place of Buddha-relics - potent traces of a Buddha - in the life cycle of southern Asian political formations. In the formation of new polities and/or new dynasties, relics were drawn into the physical landscape and literary memory of the state, in order to provide protection and to claim desirable lineage and authority. At times of heightened military and political activity, when kingdoms were at risk, the protection and deployment of relics, and their ritual engagement, formed part of the state's central technologies. During periods of victory and restoration, relic festivals and the enhancement of a landscape embedded with relics, were used to display, affirm, and protect the royal court

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · Ethnology · Gautama Buddha · History of religions · Literature · Mainland · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Victory · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · History · Law

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