Associate Professor of Asian Studies Abhishek Amar presented a paper titled 'Rethinking Secularity and Governance of Buddhist Monasteries: Insights from the Dasanami Maha of Bodhgaya' at an international research workshop on May 3.
The workshop was titled 'Buddhist Monasticism, Material Culture, and the Secular World in Early Medieval South Asia: Vihara KAKEN Project (Japan)' and was organized by the South Asia Studies dept., University of Pennsylvania.
Amar has been a member of the Art & Archaeology Group of the Vihara Project, [KAKENHI grant, Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2018-22 & 2022-26 (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research [A]; Project no. 18H03569] since 2018. The project focuses on the study of Buddhist monasteries and their institutional history and subsequent decline in South Asia.
