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Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0824887859
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Renunciation is a core value in the Buddhist tradition, but Buddhism is not necessarily austere. Jewelsalong with heavenly flowers, rays of rainbow light, and dazzling deitiesshape the literature and the material reality of the tradition. They decorate temples, fill reliquaries, are used as metaphors, and sprout out of imagined Buddha fields. Moreover, jewels reflect a particular type of currency often used to make the Buddhist world go round: merit in exchange for wealth. Regardless of whether the Buddhist community has theoretically transcended the need for them or not, jewelsand the paradox they representare everywhere. Scholarship has often looked past this splendor, favoring the theory of renunciation instead, but in this volume, scholars from a wide range of disciplines consider the role jewels play in the Buddhist imaginary, putting them front and center for the first time.

Following an introduction that relates the colorful story of the Emerald Buddha, one of the most famous jewels in the world, chapters explore the function of jewels as personal identifiers in Buddhist and other Indian religious traditions  Buddhaghosas commentary on the Jewel Sutta  the paradox of the Buddhas bejeweled status before and after renunciation  and the connection in early Buddhism between jewels, magnificence, and virtue. The Newars of Nepal are the focus of a chapter that looks at their gemology and associations between gems and celestial deities. Contributors analyze the Fifth Dalai Lamas reliquary, known as the sole ornament of the world  the transformation of relic jewels into precious substances and their connection to the Piprahwa stupa in Northern India and the Nanjing Porcelain Pagoda. Final chapters offer detailed studies of ritual engagement with the deity known as Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Avalokitevara and its role in the new Japanese lay Buddhist religious movement Shinnyo-en.

Engaging and accessible, will provide readers with an opportunity to look beyond a common misconception about Buddhism and bring its lived tradition into wider discussion.
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