This is the Famen Temple Museum's own institutional record, the museum and temple in Fufeng County, Shaanxi, that has held and studied the Buddha finger-bone relic and the Tang dynasty objects recovered from the temple's underground palace since their 1987 discovery. As the holding institution's own standing record it is authoritative for the relic's custody, its recovery circumstances and its accompanying Tang-era artifacts. Its limit is that it is an institutional museum record rather than an independent scholarly study, so a claim about the relic's religious significance within wider Chinese Buddhism, or about the authenticity debate surrounding any bone relic's identification, needs a separate scholarly source engaging that question directly.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Custodial/institutional self-account (a museum's own record of its holdings). Museums and other institutional self-accounts sit at tier 2, not tier 1 or tier 3; tier 3 is reserved for a tradition's own account of its own teachings and practice. NotesThe Famen Temple Museum's own record of its holdings; a standing custodial record, not a scholarly publication.
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyFamen Temple Museum, Fufeng County, Shaanxi
Custodian BasisThe temple and its museum are the custodian institutions housing the Buddha finger-bone relic and the Tang-dynasty objects recovered from the underground palace in 1987.
Citation
PublisherFamen Temple Museum, Shaanxi
Source TypeMuseum
Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)
This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 16 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Custodians & Museums, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
- Artifacts & Relics, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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