Early Buddhist Art of Bodh-Gaya is an exercise in hermeneutic reconstruction of the text and context of the first century BC railing sculptures from the site, where the Buddha had attained enlightenment in the sixth century BC and where the diamond throne of the Buddha survives as a remnant from Asokan days in the third century BC. It investigates and corrects the subjective intellectual bias in a century and a half of writing of Bodh-Gaya, redirects attention ...
