Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Falcone, Jessica Marie, 1976- author.

Title Battling the Buddha of love : a cultural biography of the greatest statue never built / Jessica Marie Falcone
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018
©2018

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xviii, 303 pages)
Contents Community/sangha : FPMT's transnational Buddhists -- Religious practice/dharma : global Buddhism, translation and heritage -- The statue/murti : planning a colossal Maitreya -- The relics/sarira : worship, transmission, and fundraising with the relic tour -- Aspiration/asha : hope, the future tense, and making (up) progress on the Maitreya project -- Holy place/tirtha : social life in the place of the Buddha's death -- Steadfastness/aditthana : Indian farmers resist the Buddha of love -- Loving-kindness/maitri : ethics, values and progress in the shadow of Maitreya -- Compassionate practice/karuna : advocacy anthropology and engagement -- Conclusion : faith/shraddha : guru devotion, agency and belief -- Epilogue : rebirth/samsara : the future of the Maitreya project
Summary "This ethnography explores the controversial plans and practices of the Maitreya Project, a transnational Buddhist organization, as they worked to build the world's tallest statue as a multi-million dollar gift to India"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 28, 2018)
Subject Maitreyanātha -- Cult -- India -- Kushinagar (District)
SUBJECT Maitreyanātha fast
Subject Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition.
SUBJECT Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition fast
Subject Mahayana Buddhism -- Relations.
Buddhist converts.
Mahayana Buddhism -- India -- Kushinagar (District)
Ethnology -- India -- Kushinagar (District)
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Buddhist converts
Ethnology
Interfaith relations
Mahayana Buddhism
Cults
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018009939
ISBN 9781501723476
1501723472
1501723464
9781501723469
9781501723483
1501723480