The Mahabodhi Temple at Bodhgaya
Title | The Mahabodhi Temple at Bodhgaya PDF eBook |
Author | Nikhil Joshi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 933 |
Release | 2019-09-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000732517 |
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
The History of Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya
Title | The History of Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya PDF eBook |
Author | K.T.S. Sarao |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2020-09-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9811580677 |
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.
The Maha-Bodhi
Title | The Maha-Bodhi PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN |
On the Footsteps of Buddha
Title | On the Footsteps of Buddha PDF eBook |
Author | Sunita Pant Bansal |
Publisher | Smriti Books |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9788187967736 |
Buddha was great philosopher who came near to revolutionising the religious thought and feeling of Asia. The starting point of Gautama Buddha's philosophy was his own question as a fortunate young man, why am I not completely happy?. It was an introspective question. Buddha concentrated upon Self and sought to destroy it.
Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site
Title | Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site PDF eBook |
Author | David Geary |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2012-06-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1136320687 |
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.
Buddhism in the Modern World
Title | Buddhism in the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Heine |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2003-09-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0195349091 |
The history of Buddhism has been characterized by an ongoing tension between attempts to preserve traditional ideals and modes of practice and the need to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Many developments in Buddhist history, such as the infusion of esoteric rituals, the rise of devotionalism and lay movements, and the assimilation of warrior practices, reflect the impact of widespread social changes on traditional religious structures. At the same time, Buddhism has been able to maintain its doctrinal purity to a remarkable degree. This volume explores how traditional Buddhist communities have responded to the challenges of modernity, such as science and technology, colonialism, and globalization. Editors Steven Heine and Charles S. Prebish have commissioned ten essays by leading scholars, each examining a particular traditional Buddhist school in its cultural context. The essays consider how the encounter with modernity has impacted the disciplinary, textual, ritual, devotional, practical, and socio-political traditions of Buddhist thought throughout Asia. Taken together, these essays reveal the diversity and vitality of contemporary Buddhism and offer a wide-ranging look at the way Buddhism interacts with the modern world.
Buddhism in the Modern World : Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition
Title | Buddhism in the Modern World : Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Heine Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Asian Studies Florida International University |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2003-08-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780198033578 |
The history of Buddhism has been characterized by an ongoing tension between attempts to preserve traditional ideals and modes of practice and the need to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Many developments in Buddhist history, such as the infusion of esoteric rituals, the rise of devotionalism and lay movements, and the assimilation of warrior practices, reflect the impact of widespread social changes on traditional religious structures. At the same time, Buddhism has been able to maintain its doctrinal purity to a remarkable degree. This volume explores how traditional Buddhist communities have responded to the challenges of modernity, such as science and technology, colonialism, and globalization. Editors Steven Heine and Charles S. Prebish have commissioned ten essays by leading scholars, each examining a particular traditional Buddhist school in its cultural context. The essays consider how the encounter with modernity has impacted the disciplinary, textual, ritual, devotional, practical, and socio-political traditions of Buddhist thought throughout Asia. Taken together, these essays reveal the diversity and vitality of contemporary Buddhism and offer a wide-ranging look at the way Buddhism interacts with the modern world.