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The Kanishka Casket, dated to 127 CE, with the Buddha. The Lokapannatti, a collection of stories written in the 11th or 12th century, tells the story of Ajātasattu of Magadha (c. 492 – c. 460 BCE) who gathered the Buddha's relics and hid them in an underground stupa. [6] According to this text, the Buddha's relics were protected by spirit ...
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Teresa Merrigan, 2005. Śarīra is a generic term referring to...
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T. Temple of the Tooth. Sangha Tenzin. Tongdosa. Relic of...
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The relic in India. According to Sri Lankan legends, when the Buddha died in 543 BC, his body was cremated in a sandalwood pyre at Kushinagar and his left canine tooth was retrieved from the funeral pyre by his disciple, Khema. Khema then gave it to King Brahmadatte for veneration. [1] It became a royal possession in Brahmadatte's country and ...
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The leader of the Mallakas, under siege, by the seven gods, during the War of the Relics, which were objects associated with the Buddha. The Mallakas were an ancient Indian republic (gaṇasaṅgha) that constituted one of the solasa (sixteen) Mahajanapadas (great realms) of ancient India as mentioned in the Anguttara Nikaya.
According to tradition, 10 sets of relics were enshrined, 8 from portions of the Buddha’s remains, 1 from the pyre’s ashes, and 1 from the bucket used to divide the remains. The relics were subsequently collected and enshrined in a single stupa. More than a century later, King Ashoka is said to have redistributed the relics in 84,000 stupas.
For example, Pakistan is home to 20 of the most important Buddhist sites, including the first relic of a sleeping Buddha. You can find other relics in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, China, Korea and Japan. The presumed historical site of the Buddha Relic Distribution. Distribtution site of the Relics to the 8 ...
