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“One Million Pagoda Charms” (East Asian Buddhism) Buddhist procession bringing new rice to the Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Sri Lanka Street leading to Dalada Malagawa – the Temple of the Sacred Tooth, Kandy, Sri Lanka Sikkim, Gangtok, early Buddhist script written on palm leaves Conservation of the Gandhara Scroll Images of Hinduism and Buddhism This miniature pagoda and these strips of prayers are an example of how relics of texts can function in similar ways to relics of bodies. Between 764 and 770, the Empress Shtoku ordered the Buddist prayers (dharani) to be printed and placed in "one million" tiny wooden pagodas as a memorial to the dead and distributed to monasteries throughout Japan. Relics of the Buddha are housed in stupas, which become important pilgrimage places for Buddhist monks, nuns, and lay people. This temple in Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon) is believed to house a tooth of the Buddha. Pilgrims believe that they can acquire merit for themselves and their families by visiting and making offerings to the Buddha’s relics at these stupas. This is an 1895 photograph of the pathway leading to the Temple of the Sacred an important Buddhist reliquary monument in Kandy, Sri Lanka. We know from inscriptions that as early as 150 BCE, monks, nuns, and lay people would donate money and goods at stupas in hopes of acquiring merit and attaining certain goals such as good health or supreme knowledge. Photograph shows palm leaves with Devanagari and Bengali script, on exhibit at the Namgyal Tibetology Institute, Gangtok, Sikkim. Before printing was available, manuscripts (which were subject to decay) would be copied by hand by monks or scribes. The Gandhara Scroll is one of several manuscripts recently unearthed in Afghanistan that contains the oldest known Buddhist writings to date. This resource is a three-page web article on the background, examination, and conservation of the scroll at the Library of Congress. A print of an engraving by Henry Winkles 1860), this image shows the Buddha, the Hindu god Vishnu, and various Hindu ascetics. A good piece for challenging students to think about religious syncretism in India. Also invites comparison of Buddhist and Hindu modes of representation, and analysis of colonial impressions of those representations. A Country Study: Bhutan A Country Study: Sri Lanka A Country Study: Nepal Death, Rebirth, Being Human in Tibetan Buddhism (webcast) Tibetans in Exile Tibetan Buddhist Wheel of Life