Elements of Buddhist Iconography c6.8

c6.8

7 *(page 4)*. From *paribhoga*, objects used by or in connection with the person; thus equally in the case of the dead or absent person, traces or relics other than any part of the body itself. In the present case, for example, the Buddha’s begging bowl, garments, the tree under which he attained enlightenment, the hut occupied by him; and probably, though more abstractly, such “things” as the wheel which he set in motion in Benares. The *śārīraka* and *pāribhogaka* cetiyas are then precisely those symbols which are alluded to as “traces” (*dhātu*) in the *Saddharma Puṇḍarīka*; the term *dhātu* appearing also in *dhātu-gabba* = *dāgaba* = *thūpa* = *stūpa*, “tope.”