The Mahabodhi Temple at Bodhgaya [electronic resource] : Constructing Sacred Placeness, Deconstructing the 'Great Case' Of 1895.
This volume investigates the historic and ethnographic accounts of the ongoing religious contestations over the status of the Mahbodhi Temple complex in Bodhgay (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002) and its surrounding landscape to critically analyse the working and construction of sacredness. I...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1: The 'Living' Humanized Sacred Place: An Introduction; 2: The Origins and History of the Mahābodhi Temple; 3: Constructing Sacred Placeness: Rituals Around the Bodhi Tree; 4: Divergence, Convergence: Hindu-Buddhist Encounters; 5: Anagarika Dharmapāla: A Modern Political Activist and Defender of the Dharma; 6: Deconstructing the Great Case; 7: The Two Faces of Bodhgayā: Sacred to Buddhists and Hindus; Appendices; Appendix 1: The Bodh Gaya Temple Act, 1949
- Appendix 2: The Budh-Gaya Temple CaseAppendix 3: Letter from Mr. Beglar to the Mahant of Buddha-Gaya Math; Appendix 4: Excerpts of the Court Judgement; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index