Sarita Dash. The Bauddhatantis of Orissa: culture, identity, and resurgence of an ancient guild of Buddhist weavers. Birahakrushnapur (Puri District, Orissa): Society for Environment Action and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, 2002. 67 p. [ Worldcat ]
So one of the surviving pockets of Indian Buddhism is in Orissa? Now, I don’t buy the claim that the manuscript used in Shastri’s Bauddha gān o doha (1916) epitomizes the Oriyan struggle against the British Rāj. But something Bauddha is still going on there, it seems. The question is: what?
Plea: Still looking for a copy of this obscure work; the only one I know if is at the Library of Congress. My attempts to order it from India failed.
I.S.,
Have you tried directly writing to the publishers?
Society for Environmental Action and Restoration of Cultural Heritage
Principal: Dr. Mangla Prasad Mohanty
Headquarters: H 22, Rajiv Nagar
Aiginia
Bhubaneswar 751019
Orissa
India
Phone: 0674-2401371
Maybe that might do the trick?
I’ll try it, and see what happens.