Relic casket from the Stupa at Jualian, Stucco, Taxila, Museum
Date
Authors
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
Description
The worship of relics is an old tradition in India, Even the first stupas were actually reliquary shrines, for the bones of ancestors were interred beneath them and, later, relics of the Buddhas, The specific decoration for any reliquary vessel called for imagery of Buddhist origin, hence, the caskets assumed a variety of shapes related to Buddhist iconography, This one has taken the image of the Bodhi tree of Enlightenment though it has been given abstract forms to accomplish this, the 'tree' looks like a wand of bells set into a stand
Citation
Collections
Source
Type
Archives Series
Basham Collection
Date created
circa 1970s
Access Statement
License Rights
This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
DOI
Restricted until
Downloads
File
Description