Abstract
Abstract This chapter uses the Mahābodhi Temple complex, which is both a Buddhist and Hindu pilgrimage site, as an example to illustrate the inextricable interrelatedness between a sacred place and identity politics. It also highlights how the religious attention and gaze on historic structures and events of a particular cultural group often limits understanding of a place as a shared resource. The Mahābodhi Temple is an example of the (re)construction of a sacred space, which rapidly became transformed from a shared multivalent site into a fiercely contested sacred site with a significant support from the Orientalist construct of Buddhism.
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