Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built

Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built

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Author/Contributor(s): Falcone, Jessica Marie
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date: 09/15/2018
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
Battling the Buddha of Love is a work of advocacy anthropology that explores the controversial plans and practices of the Maitreya Project, a transnational Buddhist organization, as it sought to build the "world's tallest statue" as a multi-million-dollar "gift" to India. Hoping to forcibly acquire 750 acres of occupied land for the statue park...