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Sacred Traces - British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Sacred Traces - British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Histories of Vision
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In his novel Kim, in which a Tibetan pilgrim seeks to visit
important Buddhist sites in India, Rudyard Kipling reveals the
nineteenth-century fascination with the discovery of the importance
of Buddhism in India's past. Janice Leoshko, a scholar of South
Asian Buddhist art uses Kipling's account and those of other
western writers to offer new insight into the priorities underlying
nineteenth-century studies of Buddhist art in India. In the absence
of written records, the first explorations of Buddhist sites were
often guided by accounts of Chinese pilgrims. They had journeyed to
India more than a thousand years earlier in search of sacred traces
of the Buddha, the places where he lived, obtained enlightenment,
taught and finally passed into nirvana. The British explorers,
however, had other interests besides the religion itself. They were
motivated by concerns tied to the growing British control of the
subcontinent. Building on earlier interventions, Janice Leoshko
examines this history of nineteenth-century exploration in order to
illuminate how early concerns shaped the way Buddhist art has been
studied in the West and presented in its museums.
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