འཕགས་པ་ད་བཞན་གཤགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་བྱན་གྱས་བརླབས་ཀྱ་སྙང་པ་གསང་བ་རང་བསྲལ་གྱ་ཟ་མ་ཏག་ཅས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.9
The Dhāraṇī for Secret Relics notes.9
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9. While the relationship between the “cult of the book” and the “cult of relics” has at times been portrayed in terms of competition (cf. Schopen 1975, pp. 168–70), it is perhaps more accurate to view the cult of stūpas and of relics as forming the background against which the “cult of the book” emerged. See Drewes 2007, pp. 133–35.