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Shifting the Seat of Awakening

McConeghy, David Walker
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154557985

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2006, Master of Arts, Miami University, Religion.
This thesis explores the relationship between non-Indian Buddhists and the Indian Buddhist site Bodhgaya. Chapter one examines the account of the 7th century Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang, and argues that Bodhgaya functioned as a living relic, providing direct access to the Buddha’s presence. In the second chapter, the effects of the decline of Buddhism in India are examined, leading to the conclusion that even before the fall of the Pala Dynasty, Bodhgaya had become a prominent element in the imagination of Buddhists who now relied more often on images and souvenir models of the site’s temple rather than making pilgrimages to it. In the final chapter, the phenomenon of the construction of replicas of Bodhgaya’s temple outside of India is offered as evidence that foreign Buddhists had both incorporated the presence of the Buddha into their history and inscribed the Indian sacred landscape onto their native lands.
Peter Williams (Advisor)
74 p.
Buddhism; Bodhgaya; Xuanzang; Dharmasvamin; Mahabodhi; Burma; Thailand; Nepal; India; Buddha Images; Decline of Buddhism; Pilgrimage

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  • McConeghy, D. W. (2006). Shifting the Seat of Awakening [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154557985

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McConeghy, David. Shifting the Seat of Awakening. 2006. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154557985.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McConeghy, David. "Shifting the Seat of Awakening." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1154557985

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