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Author:   Jessica Marie Falcone
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781501723469

ISBN 10:   1501723464
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   15 September 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Meditation/DHYANA: Focusing on the Maitreya Project Part One: The Transnational Buddhist Statue-Makers 1. Community/SANGHA: FPMT's Transnational Buddhists 2. The Teachings/DHARMA: Religious Practice in a Global Buddhist Institution 3. The Statue/MURTI: Planning a Colossal Maitreya 4. The Relics/SARIRA: Worship and Fundraising with the Relic Tour 5. Aspirations/ASHA: Hope, the Future Tense, and Making (Up) Progress on the Maitreya Project Part Two: The Kushinagari Resistance 6. Holy Place/TIRTHA: Living in the Place of the Buddha's Death 7. Steadfastness/ADITTHANA: Indian Farmers Resist the Buddha of Love 8. Loving-Kindness/MAITRI: Contested Notions of Ethics, Values, and Progress 9. Compassion/KARUNA: Reflections on Engaged Anthropology Conclusion: Faith/SHRADDHA: Guru Devotion, Authority, and Belief in the Shadow of the Maitreya Project Epilogue: Rebirth/SAMSARA: The Future of the Maitreya Project

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Jessica Falcone's Battling the Buddha of Love is a gripping and personal account of the troubling circumstances surrounding the attempts by the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition and the Maitreya Project to create the largest Buddha statue in the world. Falcone's work will be illuminating to a new generation of students who may find themselves on uncertain-even hostile-terrain during their fieldwork -- Catherine Becker, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago

Jessica Falcone's Battling the Buddha of Love is a gripping and personal account of the troubling circumstances the attempts by the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition and the Maitreya Project to create thsurroundinge largest Buddha statue in the world. Falcone's work will be illuminating to a new generation of students who may find themselves on uncertain-even hostile-terrain during their fieldwork -- Catherine Becker, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Jessica Marie Falcone is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University.

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