Clarifies the significance and function of reliquaries from excavations of Gandharan monastery sites around modern Peshawar
David Jongeward is a visiting scholar at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Elizabeth Errington is curator of the Charles Masson Project, British Museum Department of Coins and Medals. Richard Salomon is professor of Asian languages and literature at the University of Washington. Stefan Baums is assistant adjunct professor of South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research fellow at the School of Asian Studies, Leiden University.
"This large-format book is beautifully illustrated and sumptuously produced with many of its pictures in colour [it] is a landmark publication, full of new information and an essential book for any library attempting to cover South Asian art history and archaeology, Buddhist history and the development of Buddhist religious practice." -Michael Willis, "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society""
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