The Mahabodhi temple at Bodhgaya: constructing sacred placeness, deconstructing the 'Great Case' of 1895
Joshi, Nikhil
₹ 2495.00
This book investigates the historic and ethnographic accounts of the ongoing religious contestations over the status of the Mahabodhi Temple complex in Bodhgaya (a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2002) and its surrounding landscape to critically analyse the working and construction (and re-construction) of sacredness.
ISBN 13: 9789388540308
ISBN 10: 9388540301
Year: 2019
Language: ENGLISH
Pages etc.: 492p., (30)b/w illus., appendices, bib., ind., 24cm.
Binding: Hardbound
Subject(s): History, Buddhism
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