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Jewel in the ashes

by Brian Douglas Ruppert

2000 505 pages eng

"This study addresses the relationship between the veneration of Buddha relics and the appropriation of power in early medieval Japan. Focusing on the ninth to the fourteenth centuries, it analyzes the ways in which relics and the wish-fulfilling jewels constructed of relics functioned as material m…

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