The sacred landscape — temples, tirthas, kshetras, Dharmic circuits, pilgrimage traditions, and the Agama as the living science of sacred space and ritual.
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A Karnataka polymath whose encyclopedic work on Hindu iconography and temple architecture reveals the metaphysical logic embedded in every sculptural form and spatial arrangement - the temple not as monument but as cosmological diagram made stone.
How did the traditional Hindu temple function as a self-governing civilizational institution - and what would it take to recover that from state-imposed bureaucratic management? Research building the case for culture-sensitive temple governance by documenting indigenous models of administration.
What do three hundred surviving ancient temple sites of Madhya Pradesh reveal about the full range of Hindu sacred architecture - and what was lost to medieval destruction? A deep architectural and sculptural study of ten major temple clusters, making the grammar of Hindu temple-building legible.
svayambodha
My Journey with AnveshiThe origin story of Anveshi, Bodha's structured temple-visit practice - how collective temple-going became a form of civilizational reconnection - and what it reveals about how living tradition actually perpetuates itself.
Pankaj Saxena
shatrubodha
Documentation and interpretation of the destruction, transformation, and historical memory of Hindu temples.
Sita Ram Goel
shatrubodha
Continuation of the documentary record on Hindu temples, iconoclasm, and historical memory.
Sita Ram Goel