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The 14 pages that link to Buddhist relic, each with the reason it gives.

• Buddhist artRelated: Relics give stupas and reliquaries a focus for devotion and pilgrimage.

• Buddhist pilgrimageRelated: Their presence can transform a shrine into a destination for pilgrimage and worship.

• SanchiRelated: Relic veneration helps explain the devotional purpose of Sanchi’s stupas.

• MahāvaṃsaRelated: Relic episodes connect royal legitimacy and religious devotion in the chronicle.

• StupaRelated: Relics give many stupas their role as reliquaries and pilgrimage destinations.

• Buddha imageRelated: Images and relics both make sacred presence tangible, though in different ways.

• Buddhist ritualRelated: Relics anchor ceremonies in claims of presence, memory, and lineage.

• Bodhi treeRelated: Branches and descendants of the sacred tree have been venerated as living relics.

• Buddhist architectureRelated: Enshrined relics give stupas their devotional purpose and draw pilgrimage.

• Buddhist templeRelated: Relics can make a temple a focus of devotion and pilgrimage.

• PagodaRelated: Some pagodas enshrine relics, continuing the stupa’s commemorative function.

• HiraizumiRelated: Relics and sacred remains gave Hiraizumi’s temples objects of ritual focus.

• FaxianRelated: Faxian described relics and the ceremonies that made them objects of pilgrimage.