MARC details
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01921nam a22002177a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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JGU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20230824020023.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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230517b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780226789118 |
| Qualifying information |
pbk. |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
JGU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Strong, John S., |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1639891 |
| Relator term |
author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Buddha’s tooth : |
| Remainder of title |
western tales of a Sri Lankan Relic / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
John S. Strong |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Chicago : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University of Chicago Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2021. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"Bodily relics such as hairs, teeth, fingernails, pieces of bone―supposedly from the Buddha himself―have long served as objects of veneration for many Buddhists. Unsurprisingly, when Western colonial powers subjugated populations in South Asia, they used, manipulated, redefined, and even destroyed these objects to exert control. In The Buddha’s Tooth, John S. Strong examines Western stories, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, surrounding two significant Sri Lankan sacred objects to illuminate and concretize colonial attitudes toward Asian religions. First, he analyzes a tale about the Portuguese capture and public destruction, in the mid-sixteenth century, of a tooth later identified as a relic of the Buddha. Second, he switches gears to look at the nineteenth-century saga of British dealings with another tooth relic of the Buddha―the famous Daḷadā enshrined in a temple in Kandy―from 1815, when it was taken over by English forces, to 1954, when it was visited by Queen Elizabeth II. As Strong reveals, the stories of both the Portuguese tooth and the Kandyan tooth reflect nascent and developing Western understandings of Buddhism, realizations of the cosmopolitan nature of the tooth, and tensions between secular and religious interests."-- |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Sri Lanka |
| Topical term following geographic name as entry element |
Buddhism and state |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1640450 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Gautama Buddha |
| 9 (RLIN) |
59089 |
