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...Eck studied at Banaras University and conducted a field work projection "Hinduism and the Indian Intellectual." She went out on her bicycle with 20 letters of introduction to the intelligentiz of Banaras to ask them which were the primary gods in their home and whether they believe in reincarnation and karma...
...fairly crude questionnaire," Eck says in retrospect...
...Eck says her field work was a tremendous education since she met "a lot of very good people and Indians on a whole love to talk about religion," adding that because she studied there before the Hippie phenomena hit India, her group had a lot of interaction and were very welcome to the community...
After her year abroad, Eck graduated from Smith and spent a year on a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of London at the School of Oriental and African Studies...
...couldn't find a job and ended up working as a secretary in Harvard Square. "I decided that it was not for me though I did enjoy it, and if I was going to be sitting in a chair all day, I might as well be doing graduate work," Eck therefore enrolled in graduate school at Harvard to study comparative religion...