Battling the Buddha of Love by Jessica Marie Falcone PAPERBACK 9781501723483

Battling the Buddha of LoveA Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built\nAuthor(s): Jessica Marie Falcone\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501723483, 978-1501723483\nSynopsis\nBattling 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 in the Kushinagar area of Uttar Pradesh, the Buddhist statue planners ran into obstacle after obstacle, including a full-scale grassroots resistance movement of Indian farmers working to \""Save the Land.\""\n\n Falcone sheds light on the aspirations, values, and practices of both the Buddhists who worked to construct the statue, as well as the Indian farmer-activists who .