In the name of myself: donors of images at Bodhgaya - The Domestication of “Hindu” Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia - ERC n°809994
Article Dans Une Revue Seminar Année : 2021

In the name of myself: donors of images at Bodhgaya

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Epigraphic material from the celebrated Buddhist site of Bodhgaya has been subjected to generations of researches by epigraphists, art historians and archaeologists of South Asia. However, no work has so far concentrated precisely on the substantial corpus of dedicatory inscriptions from the site, engraved primarily on the sculptures and ‘votive’ compositions, that have been sporadically published over a period well over a century. This note concentrates on select dated image inscriptions from the site, located in different repositories and the site itself, to constitute a framework for future studies on dedicatory inscriptions from the site. The paper concludes with the argument that between the fourth and the eleventh centuries CE Bodhgaya witnessed myriad and layered processes of transformation, as clearly reflected from the donative records as from the other material remains from the site.
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halshs-03518758 , version 1 (04-03-2022)

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Rajat Sanyal. In the name of myself: donors of images at Bodhgaya. Seminar, 2021, A Layered Past a symposium on Bodhgaya, its history, heritage and sustainability, 745, pp.59-64. ⟨halshs-03518758⟩
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