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Holy Place/TIRTHA: Living in the Place of the Buddha’s Death Get access

Jessica Marie Falcone
in Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built
Published: 15 September 2018
... celibacy Gender Development Index GDI Kushinagar resistance Dharamsala Holy Land Reborn The Huber Toni Linh Son Temple Namgyal Institute sanghas Vietnam Wat Thai Monastery pujas refugees Kuala Lumpur gompas Kushinagar Rural India Uttar Pradesh Maitreya Project Pilgrimage in India...
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Introduction: Of Light, Literacy, and Knowledge in the Tamil Countryside Get access

Francis Cody
in The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
Published: 25 September 2013
...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. The Arivoli Iyakkam, the “Light of Knowledge,” or “Enlightenment,” is a social movement in rural India which sought to make political agents of rural women and to disseminate scientific knowledge through...