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Ars Orientalis
Published by The University of Michigan
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An annual, joint publication of the Freer Gallery of Asian Art at the Smithsonian and the University of Michigan’s History of Art Department.
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As a sacred site for pilgrimage, Bodhgayā became even more prominent from the sixth and seventh centuries onward, when the rebuilding of the Mahābodhi Temple coincided with the installation of a Buddha statue with the earth-touching gesture, symbolic of the Buddha’s calling upon the earth to bear witness to his victory over evil. Miracles enshroud the creation of the image itself, and later it became a famous icon widely copied throughout the Buddhist world.