relics-in-transition-material-mediations_mukherjee-sraman.md

title	authors	external_url	source_url	drive_links	course	tags	year	month	journal	volume	number	pages	openalexid
Relics in Transition: Material Mediations in Changing Worlds	Sraman Mukherjee	https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/relics-in-transition-material-mediations-in-changing-worlds.pdf?c=ars;idno=13441566.0048.002;format=pdf	https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.13441566.0048.002	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QfAMvf-_1qs67TX2PJzsX9_Dj_Oqx92J/view?usp=drivesdk	modern	theravada-roots	2018	oct	ao	48	20220203	20--42	W2898198368

The Kandy episode reflects Chulalongkorn’s self-image both as a Buddhist leader—a “defender of the faith”—and as a champion of rationalism. This dual self-fashioning remained an extremely strenuous exercise.

How some British-discovered relics made their way to Thailand.