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Bevilacqua, D. (2025).  Tapobhūmi: When spiritual power saturates the landscape. Religion of South Asia. 19 (2), 203-225
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D. Bevilacqua,  " Tapobhūmi: When spiritual power saturates the landscape", in Religion of South Asia, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 203-225, 2025
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@article{bevilacqua2025_1777161611727,
	author = "Bevilacqua, D.",
	title = " Tapobhūmi: When spiritual power saturates the landscape",
	journal = "Religion of South Asia",
	year = "2025",
	volume = "19",
	number = "2",
	doi = "10.1558/rosa.34058",
	pages = "203-225",
	url = "https://journal.equinoxpub.com/ROSA/about"
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  -  Tapobhūmi: When spiritual power saturates the landscape
T2  - Religion of South Asia
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
AU  - Bevilacqua, D.
PY  - 2025
SP  - 203-225
SN  - 1751-2689
DO  - 10.1558/rosa.34058
UR  - https://journal.equinoxpub.com/ROSA/about
AB  - The sacred geography of India has long captivated scholars, who have emphasized its mythologization and demonstrated how this landscape connects places to deities, saints and heroes, creating a network that links locations and people through pilgrimage. This paper explores a rarely investigated typology of sacred places, the tapobhūmi. Tapobhūmi, the ground (bhūmi) of spiritual power (tapas), refers to a place where someone has performed ascetic practices (tapasyā) to such an extent that the accumulated spiritual power has been transmitted to the area. These places continue to attract ascetics, who, by practising there, are believed to further increase the tapas of the area. India is dotted with numerous sites recognized as tapobhūmis, which can sometimes evolve into pilgrimage destinations, preserving the memory of renowned ascetics who once practised there. By linking the concept of tapobhūmi to that of guphā (cave) as places for ascetic practice, this paper analyses various forms of tapobhūmi. Using visual examples from central and northern India along with ethnographic data, it illustrates how tapobhūmis embody a human rather than a divine or deified endeavour, forming a parallel sacred geography that is primarily transmitted within ascetic circles and operates according to individual or sampradāyic agendas.
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