Elements of Buddhist Iconography c6.7

c6.7

6 *(page 4)*. A *cetiya*, as appears from the present text and elsewhere, is not primarily a building, but any object made use of as a sacred symbol or cult object. A shrine in the sense “temple” is *cetiya-ghara*. Cf. my *Yakṣas*, I and II, *passim*, and B. C. Law, “‘Cetiya’ in the Buddhist Literature,” *Studia Indo-Iranica*, 1931, pp. 42-48.