The Holy Land Reborn_ Pilgrimage and the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India

Abstract

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 ;