1998
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John Strong, « Les reliques des cheveux du Bouddha au Shwe Dagon de Rangoon », Aséanie, Sciences humaines en Asie du Sud-Est, ID : 10.3406/asean.1998.1596
According to local lore, the Shwe Dagon pagoda in Rangoon enshrines as relics some hairs of the Buddha Gotama, initially brought there by the merchants Tapassu and Bhallika. This article examines various Mon and Burmese versions of this "Shwe Dagon legend", featuring these merchants, their journey from India to Burma with the hair relics, their search for the hill on which to enshrine them, and their construction there of a stūpa (the future Shwe Dagon pagoda). The article then presents a rather different hair-relic tradition recorded in the Chakesadhātuvamsa, a Pāli text chronicling the distribution of six hair-relics of the Buddha by six of his disciples. A final section differentiates between these two legendary cycles in terms of "centrifugal" and "centripetal" relic traditions.