Since 2001, the Maitreya Project Heart Shrine Relic Tour has visited cities across the United States, sharing a collection of nearly 1,000 relics with the public.
The Heart Shrine relics come from many Buddhist masters, including relics of the founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni Buddha, donated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
In her defense, keeping a heart as a relic wasn't entirely uncommon: Voltaire's heart is still kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, while Chopin's is preserved in alcohol at Warsaw's Church of the Holy Cross.
Ms. Hacker's video, installed in a closetlike space, brings us uncomfortably close to the existential tension between dissolution and salvation that lay at the heart of the relic cult.
Instinctively, Lanzmann knew Murmelstein was an important and very rare relic at the heart of the Jewish experience under the Nazis, and should be at the heart of the endeavor to film its witnesses.
Then (I like to imagine) I looked up at the graceful relic and my heart swelled with pride.
The small cage hosting the heart-shaped box containing the relic was tucked away in an innocuous alcove at the side of a small altar.
It's as if a dodo had materialized in the heart of Manhattan — and not some stuffed relic from a natural history museum but a fat, frisky dodo, as alive as you or I.
The term "bleeding heart liberal" sounds musty and outdated, a relic of a time when slogans like "Save the whales" were code for "Worry about everything" and the words "drone strike" conjured up sci-fi, not a progressive president.
In the heart of the tomb would be the pivotal relic around which the show would revolve, a flint hand axe 250,000 years old, the tool that begat all tools.
