GRAVE: Gandharan Relic rituals And Veneration Explored

佛陀的遗物和杰出的出家人是佛教的核心。该宗教于公元前世纪从印度中部传入巴基斯坦和阿富汗的部分地区，从公元1世纪到公元4世纪深深地嵌入了贵霜王国的社会政治结构中。通过艺术史，宗教研究，语言学和考古学之间的协同作用，GRAVE建议提供一个全面的理解，在公元1世纪和4世纪之间的犍陀罗艺术中的遗物崇拜的概念化。GRAVE建立了一个图像数据库，以确定遗物，人物，行动和仪式装备的类型为基础，通过分析当代甘地遗物捐赠铭文和后来中国对该地区遗物崇拜的描述，将视觉材料置于其社会宗教背景中。《坟墓》是及时的，因为它超越了传统的形式分析，最终在艺术风格的审美相互作用，并走向艺术与社会宗教实践之间的联系。GRAVE还将调查佛教从业者和英国主要博物馆收藏的犍陀罗艺术品的游客，以了解他们对遗物仪式的看法。这将是GRAVE首次系统地探索与犍陀罗遗物相关的重复、表演性和仪式交流，同时了解现代追随者对佛教遗物的看法。Ashwini Lakshminarayanan作为卡迪夫大学经验丰富的研究员的培训将遵循沿着这些跨学科的路线，与GRAVE的目标保持一致。详细的科学和职业发展目标与历史，考古学和宗教学院（CU的SHARE）的完全整合以及DiGA项目（鲁尔大学波鸿宗教研究中心）的借调将保证主机和合作伙伴组织的互利成功，并确保研究人员的高就业能力。

Relics of the Buddha and prominent renunciates were at the heart of Buddhism. The religion, introduced from Central India in the third century BCE to parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, became strongly embedded in the socio-political fabric of the Kushan kingdom from the first till the fourth century CE. Through the synergies between art history, religious studies, philology and archaeology, GRAVE proposes to provide a comprehensive understanding of the conceptualization of relic veneration in Gandhara art between the 1st and the 4th centuries CE. Building an image database identifying the types of relics, figures, actions and ritual accoutrements as a basis, GRAVE contextualises the visual material in its socio-religious context by analysing contemporary Gandhari relic donative inscriptions and later Chinese accounts of relic veneration in the region. GRAVE is timely as it moves beyond traditional analysis of forms that end in an aesthetic interplay of artistic styles and towards the connection between art and socio-religious praxis. GRAVE will also survey Buddhist practitioners and visitors of leading UK museum collections of Gandharan art to understand their perception of relic rituals. For the first time, GRAVE will explore repetition, performativity, and ritual communication related to Gandharan relics in a systematic way while simultaneously understanding the perception of Buddhist relics by modern followers.The training of Ashwini Lakshminarayanan as an experienced researcher at Cardiff University will ensue along these interdisciplinary lines in tune with the objectives of GRAVE. The detailed scientific and career development objectives with a complete integration within the School of History, Archaeology and Religion (SHARE at CU) and a secondment at the DiGA project (Center for Religious Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum) will guarantee mutual beneficial success for the host and the partner organisations and ensure high employability for the researcher.