Establishing textual authority in a print culture -- Accruing merit in a manuscript culture -- Multiple ways to multiply Buddhist images -- Replication and the transmission of Buddhist iconography -- Replicating the Buddha's true appearance -- Manifesting the Buddha body in reliquaries -- Reenacting the devotional act of relic burial.
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