Journal Article Lord Rāma and the Faces of God in India Get access HARRY M. BUCK HARRY M. BUCK HARRY M. BUCK Professor of Religious Studies at Wilson College, is Managing Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Much of the material for this essay was gathered from the author's own observation during a year's residence in Madras in 1965–66, supported by a grant from the American Institute of Indian Studies. The material was presented as a paper at the annual meeting of the American Academy of religion in Chicago, October 21, 1967. Quotations from the Rāmāyana are from the translation of Hari Prasad Shastri, The Ramayana of Valmiki, London: Shanti Sadan, 1962, 3 vols. References in the text are to the Kānda (in Roman numerals) and the Sarga (arabic numerals) only. Transliteration of Sanskrit terms and names has been made to conform to the standard of W. D. Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964, p. 5. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, September 1968, Pages 229–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXVI.3.229 Published: 01 September 1968