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Toni Huber

The Holy Land Reborn

Pilgrimage and the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India

464 pages, 28 halftones, 15 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2008
Series: Buddhism and Modernity

Cloth $45.00

ISBN: 9780226356488   Published August 2008

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List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
 
Part One: Locating and Dislocating the Land of the Buddha
1   The Shifting Terrain of the Buddha
2   Buddhist Knowledge and Anachronism in Tibet 
3   Journeying to the Centre of the World
4   Tantric Buddhist India and Its Tibetan Appropriation  
 
Part Two: Reinventing the Holy Land in India
5   Nirvana in Assam 
6   Return to the Centre of the World 
7   The Allure of the Atsaras                                                                        
8   The Precious Guru in the Punjab   
 
Part Three: Modern Rebirths of the Holy Land
9    Archaeological and Discursive Rebirths of Buddhist India       
10  Encountering the Modern Holy Land 
11  Exile in the Land of the Buddha

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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