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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: myth of the Buddha's birthplace
  name:
    name part: Freeman, James M.
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: producer,
    role:
      role term: director.
  name:
    name part: Freeman, Karsten
    role:
      role term: director,
    role:
      role term: cinematographer.
  name:
    name part: Pandey, Annapurna Devi
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: Kumar, M. Sanjeeb
    role:
      role term: cinematographer.
  name:
    name part: Chinlund, Jennifer
    role:
      role term: film editor.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentaries and Factual Films
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (36 min.)
  abstract: This fascinating and thought-provoking documentary explores the process by which a modern myth is created. An engaging blend of mystery story and solid anthropological field research, the film illustrates how the people in a small village in eastern India have come to believe that the Buddha was born in their village, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Their belief goes against the view of most experts and most Buddhists, who maintain that the Buddha's birthplace is in southern Nepal, more than 400 miles to the north. In 1928 a stone inscription written in the ancient Pali language was found in Kapileswar, a small village in the state of Odisha. The inscription declared that the Buddha was born there. Since its discovery, scholars have contested the authenticity of the Kapileswar inscription and the truth of its claim. The stone inscription has since mysteriously vanished, making it difficult to arrive at a definitive conclusion. For many decades the Hindu villagers paid no attention to this inscription and its claim, but in the 21st century they have created a ceremony celebrating the birthday of the Buddha along with a myth depicting how the Buddha was born there. Anthropologist James M. Freeman lived in Kapileswar during the 1960s and '70s, when he collected information for his books on the village temple and the people of the village. At that time, there was no Buddha Birthday ceremony in the village, and there was no Buddha myth. In 2007, Freeman returned to Kapileswar, along with anthropologist Annapurna Devi Pandey, who was born near the village but now lives and teaches in the U.S. The film follows them as they search for the lost inscription and examine why, after several decades of indifference, the villagers now have taken up the claim that their village is the Buddha's birthplace and hold onto this belief, even though most experts reject their claim. The film shows that Kapileswar village is indeed located in a region with an ancient Buddhist tradit…
  target audience: adult
  note: producer, James M. Freeman ; directors, James M. Freeman, Karsten Freeman.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed July 07, 2016).
  note: In English and Oriya.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gautama Buddha
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gautama Buddha
  subject:
    geographic: Kapileswara (India)
  subject:
    geographic: India
    geographic: Kapileswara
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)881183286
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 160707
    record change date: 20241201232856.6
    record identifier: in00005584017
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng