Images, Relics, and Jewels: The Assimilation of Images in the Buddhist Relic Cult of Gandhara - or Vice Versa

If the Buddha's relics mattered so much, how could the Buddha images have acquired as much sanctity?

Lecture by Juhyung Rhi,

Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies, UC, Berkeley, Dept. of Archaeolohy & Art History, Seoul National University