books.google.ca - Buddhism is popularly seen as a religion stressing the truth of impermanence. How, then, to account for the long-standing veneration, in Asian Buddhist communities, of bone fragments, hair, teeth, and other bodily bits said to come from the historic Buddha? Early European and American scholars of religion,...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Relics_of_the_Buddha.html?id=_KLAxmR8PZAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRelics of the Buddha