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Locating Lumbini : = Transnational Buddhism and the Construction of Heritage in Nepal.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Locating Lumbini :/
Reminder of title:	Transnational Buddhism and the Construction of Heritage in Nepal.
Author:	Harcey, Blayne Kevin.
Description:	1 online resource (310 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-10A.
Subject:	Religion. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798382240299

Locating Lumbini : = Transnational Buddhism and the Construction of Heritage in Nepal.
Harcey, Blayne Kevin.

Locating Lumbini :Transnational Buddhism and the Construction of Heritage in Nepal. - 1 online resource (310 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

This study offers a genealogical investigation of the modern manufacture of the Buddha' birthplace at Lumbini, in Nepal's rural Terai region. Throughout the twentieth century, Asian and non-Asian actors employed the cross-cultural prestige of Lumbini in their overlapping agendas. These efforts emerged in response to the Buddhism's disembedding from traditional socio-political institutions under colonial governance across South and Southeast Asia and were further spurred by the rapid globalization characteristic of the mid-twentieth century. Lumbini was conscripted into colonial regimes of power, and also emerged as symbolic capital in the formation of national narratives within post-colonial India and Nepal. I argue that Lumbini presents a unique and interesting case of a protracted process of "heritagization" that is both multivalent and multivocal. As Buddhists have sought to ensure the survival of the Buddha's dispensation (sasana) in modernity, they have mobilized Lumbini as a powerful symbol of peace, brotherhood, and global connectivity in conjunction with the prevailing logics of their non-Buddhist contemporaries. Focusing on Lumbini's modern (re)discovery and its successive development highlights conjunctures between "Buddhist modernism" and the secularizing processes of heritage conservation and display. This study finds that trans-Asian flows of investment in reconstituting the Buddha's birthplace throughout the twentieth century are antecedents to emergent forms of geopolitical and "geo-cultural" (Winter 2019) imaginations in the contemporary, as evidenced by Lumbini's inclusion in China's Belt and Road Initiative.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798382240299Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Religion.
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BuddhismIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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