地域社会学会年報
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インド「仏教聖地」構築の舞台
──「仏教聖地」構築と交錯する地域社会──
前島 訓子
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ジャーナル フリー

2011 年 23 巻 p. 67-81

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The main aim of this essay is to make clear the affect of local context in the process of social construction of sacred place based on my field work on Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India. It is said that Bodh Gaya, a small town in Bihar India, is the most sacred place in the Buddhist world. Today, it continues to attract Buddhists from all over the world with so many ways of worship that celebrate Buddha's enlightenment. There are number of Buddhist temples built by foreign Buddhists especially from Asia around the Mahabodhi Temple, which was originally built by King Ashoka to celebrate and praise Buddha.

It should be stressed that the Mahabodhi Temple or area surrounding it had been forgotten by Buddhists for a long time and, moreover, recognition or promotion of the place as a scared place was largely due to the contribution of social agents from outside of local society.

Here I suggested that the construction of the Mahabodhi temple and the area surrounding it is closely related and affected by the change of social system of the local society, which has been largely dominated by traditional rule. In this vein, two points can be put forward based on my research. Firstly, the role of local society for the construction of the sacred place remains to be minimal until the independence of India from British rule and, secondly, along with social changes brought about in the making of modern India, local society of Bodh Gaya has produced two types of reorganization related with the construction of the sacred place.

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