[Buddha-l] Genetics

[Franz Metcalf]

Gang,

Joy mentioned a time when

> the gene of awakening will finally be isolated from the Buddha's tooth.

Have to say, I love this idea. Cloning the Buddha may be out of the 
question, but perhaps identifying his genetic characteristics would be 
helpful in our own training to be strengthen the qualities we deem he 
had. Writing this, I realize this is not entirely insane or un-dharmic. 
But it's a ways off. Meanwhile, have there been conversations about 
doing dating of relics of the Buddha (as with the Shroud of Turin)?

Curiously,

Franz