Becoming the Buddha Motilal Banarsidass Diane Ganeles

Diane Ganeles

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For the armchair traveller

Suklacandra

as conditions have been slightly relaxed and Tibetans permitted at least the outward trappings of religious practice

Becoming the Buddha Motilal Banarsidass Diane GanelesBecoming the Buddha is the first book length study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha image or "new Buddha," a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible exploration of this ritual in northern Thailand, an exploration that stands apart from standard text based or anthropological approaches, Donald Swearer makes a major contribution to our understanding of the