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Author | : David Geary |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2017-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295742380 |
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This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya — the place of Buddha’s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar — explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex into a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002. The rapid change from a small town based on an agricultural economy to an international destination that attracts hundreds of thousands of Buddhist pilgrims and visitors each year has given rise to a series of conflicts that foreground the politics of space and meaning among Bodh Gaya’s diverse constituencies. David Geary examines the modern revival of Buddhism in India, the colonial and postcolonial dynamics surrounding archaeological heritage and sacred space, and the role of tourism and urban development in India.
Author | : David Geary |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415684528 |
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Bodh Gaya in the North Indian state of Bihar has long been recognized as the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenment. This book brings together the recent work of twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, art history, history, and religion - to highlight their various findings and perspectives on different facets of Bodh Gaya's past and present. Through an engaging and critical overview of the place of Buddha's enlightenment, the book discusses the dynamic and contested nature of this site, and looks at the tensions with the on-going efforts to define the place according to particular histories or identities. It addresses many aspects of Bodh Gaya, from speculation about why the Buddha chose to sit beneath a tree in Bodh Gaya, to the contemporary struggles over tourism development, education and non-government organizations, to bring to the foreground the site's longevity, reinvention and current complexity as a UNESCO World Heritage monument. The book is a useful contribution for students and scholars of Buddhism and South Asian Studies.
Author | : Alan Trevithick |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Buddhist temples |
ISBN | : 9788120831070 |
Download The Revival of Buddhist Pilgrimage at Bodh Gaya (1811-1949) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Alan Trevithick spent three years researching primary documents in New Delhi, Sarnath, Colombo, and London, in order to present this history (1874-1949) of the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya. This is the first such account, and it details for the first time the administrative, legal and legislative activities which shaped the temple`s current status as one of the world`s most popular pilgrimage sites. Also included is an innovative biographical essay on Anagarika Dharmapala, the Sinhalese activist who first came to India in the late 19th century as a guest of the Theosohical society: his subsequent actions substantially affected the development of Bodh Gaya as a site of international importance.
Author | : K.T.S. Sarao |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2020-09-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9811580677 |
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This book offers an overview of the emergence of Bodh Gayā as a sacred site within Gayā Dharmakṣetra. It contextualizes the different encounters, incidents, and legends connected to the Buddha’s experiences shortly before and after he attained Bodhi – when, spiritually speaking, he was extremely lonely and was trying to carve a place for himself in the highly competitive Gayā Dharmakṣetra. Further, the book examines the role of various personalities and institutions contributed towards the emergence of Mahābodhi Temple. It incorporates a wealth of research on the role of the Victorian Indologists as well as the colonial administrators, the Giri mahants, and Anagārika Dharmapāla, to understand the material milieu pertaining not only to its identity but also access to spiritual resources as its conservation and development. This book is an indispensable read for students and scholars of history, cultural studies, and art and architecture as well as practitioners of Buddhism and Hinduism.
Author | : Frederick M. Asher |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Bodh Gaya, one of the most important sacred Buddhist pilgrimage centre in the world, lies in Bihar, India.
Author | : Ryōjun Satō |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788120839434 |
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Author | : Sachindra Narayan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Buddh Gaya (India). |
ISBN | : |
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Historical, sociological, and anthropological aspects of a pilgrimage center in Bihar.
Author | : Nikhil Joshi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 933 |
Release | : 2019-09-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000732517 |
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This volume investigates the historic and ethnographic accounts of the ongoing religious contestations over the status of the Mahābodhi Temple complex in Bodhgayā (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002) and its surrounding landscape to critically analyse the working and construction of sacredness. It endeavours to make a ground-up assessment of ways in which human participants in the past and present respond to and interact with the Mahābodhi Temple and its surroundings. The volume argues that sacredness goes beyond scriptural texts and archaeological remains. The Mahābodhi Temple is complex and its surrounding landscape is a ‘living’ heritage, which has been produced socially and constitutes differential densities of human involvement, attachment, and experience. Its significance lies mainly in the active interaction between religious architecture within its dynamic ritual settings. This endless contestation of sacredness and its meaning should not be seen as the ‘death’ of the Mahābodhi Temple; on the contrary, it illustrates the vitality of the ongoing debate on the meaning, understanding, and use of the sacred in the Indian context. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Author | : Ravi Sangam |
Publisher | : Shangum Mass communication Pvt. Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
Download Footsteps of Lord Buddha in Bodhgaya & Gaya Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book has been written on the tourism of Bodhgaya and Gaya, the main Buddhist tourist place of Bihar. It also details the distance, significance, history and antiquity of each place. Details of local amenities for tourists are also given in it. In this way, it is not only useful for tourists, but also those who want to know the historical significance of this place.
Author | : Rājendralāla Mitra (Raja) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Architecture, Buddhist |
ISBN | : |
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