Buddha In Gandhara

Author : Kurt Behrendt,Pia Brancaccio
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780774841283

Get Book

Gandharan Buddhism by Kurt Behrendt,Pia Brancaccio Pdf

The ancient region of Gandhara, with its prominent Buddhist heritage, has long fascinated scholars of art history, archaeology, and textual studies. Discoveries of inscriptions, text fragments, sites, and artworks in the last decade have added new pieces to the Gandharan puzzle, redefining how we understand the region and its cultural complexity. The essays in this volume reassess Gandharan Buddhism in light of these findings, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that illuminates the complex historical and cultural dynamics of the region. By integrating archaeology, art history, numismatics, epigraphy, and textual sources, the contributors articulate the nature of Gandharan Buddhism and its practices, along with the significance of the relic tradition. Contributions by several giants in the field, including Shoshin Kuwayama, John Rosenfield, and the late Maurizio Taddei, set the geographical, historical, and archaeological parameters for the collection. The result is a productive interdisciplinary conversation on the enigmatic nature of Gandharan Buddhism that joins together a number of significant pieces in a complex cultural mosaic. It will appeal to a large and diverse readership, including those interested in the early Buddhist religious tradition of Asia and its art, as well as specialists in the study of South and Central Asian Buddhist art, archaeology, and texts. A Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9389967430

Get Book

Buddha in Gandhara by Anonim Pdf

Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351252744

Get Book

Buddhism and Gandhara by Himanshu Prabha Ray Pdf

Gandhara is a name central to Buddhist heritage and iconography. It is the ancient name of a region in present-day Pakistan, bounded on the west by the Hindu Kush mountain range and to the north by the foothills of the Himalayas. ‘Gandhara’ is also the term given to this region’s sculptural and architectural features between the first and sixth centuries CE. This book re-examines the archaeological material excavated in the region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and traces the link between archaeological work, histories of museum collections and related interpretations by art historians. The essays in the volume underscore the diverse cultural traditions of Gandhara – from a variety of sources and perspectives on language, ethnicity and material culture (including classical accounts, Chinese writings, coins and Sanskrit epics) – as well as interrogate the grand narrative of Hellenism of which Gandhara has been a part. The book explores the making of collections of what came to be described as Gandhara art and reviews the Buddhist artistic tradition through notions of mobility and dynamic networks of transmission. Wide ranging and rigorous, this volume will appeal to scholars and researchers of early South Asian history, archaeology, religion (especially Buddhist studies), art history and museums.

Author : Salomon Richard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614291855

Get Book

Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara by Salomon Richard Pdf

Discover the fascinating history of a long-hidden Buddhist culture at a historic crossroads. In the years following Alexander the Great’s conquest of the East, a series of empires rose up along the Silk Road. In what is now northern Pakistan, the civilizations in the region called Gandhara became increasingly important centers for the development of Buddhism, reaching their apex under King Kaniska of the Kusanas in the second century CE. Gandhara has long been known for its Greek-Indian synthesis in architecture and statuary, but until about twenty years ago, almost nothing was known about its literature. The insights provided by manuscripts unearthed over the last few decades show that Gandhara was indeed a vital link in the early development of Buddhism, instrumental in both the transmission of Buddhism to China and the rise of the Mahayana tradition. The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara surveys what we know about Gandhara and its Buddhism, and it also provides translations of a dozen different short texts, from similes and stories to treatises on time and reality.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kurt A. Behrendt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588392244

Get Book

The Art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kurt A. Behrendt Pdf

Author : David Jongeward,Elizabeth Errington,Richard Salomon,Stefan Baums
Publisher : Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project, Seattle
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295992360

Get Book

Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries by David Jongeward,Elizabeth Errington,Richard Salomon,Stefan Baums Pdf

Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of pivotal importance in the production of Buddhist texts and art in the first centuries CE. Since the mid-nineteenth century, excavations of Gandharan monastery sites have revolutionized the study of early Buddhism. Among the treasures unearthed are hundreds of reliquaries--containers housing relics of the Buddha. This volume combines art history, Buddhist history, ancient Indian history, archaeology, epigraphy, linguistics, and numismatics to clarify the significance and function of these reliquaries. The story begins with the Buddha's last days, his death and funerary arrangements, and the distribution of the cremated remains, which initiated a relic cult. Chapters describe Gandharan reliquary types and subgroups, the archaeological and historical significance of collections, and the paleographic and linguistic interpretation of the inscriptions on the reliquaries. The 400 reliquaries illustrated and surveyed are from museums and private collections in Pakistan, India, Japan, Europe, and North America. Stone is the primary material of construction, along with bronze, gold, and silver. Shapes range from spherical and cylindrical to miniature stupas, a configuration that provides valuable information about the history of this Buddhist monumental form. David Jongeward is a visiting scholar at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Elizabeth Errington is curator of the Charles Masson Project, British Museum Department of Coins and Medals. Richard Salomon is professor of Asian languages and literature at the University of Washington. Stefan Baums is assistant adjunct professor of South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research fellow at the School of Asian Studies, Leiden University.

Author : Adriana G. Proser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878481125

Get Book

The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan by Adriana G. Proser Pdf

Author : Kurt A. Behrendt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004135952

Get Book

Handbuch der Orientalistik by Kurt A. Behrendt Pdf

Kurt Behrendt in this book for the first time and convincingly offers a description of the development of 2nd century B.C.E. to 8th century C.E. Buddhist sacred centers in ancient Gandhara, today northwest Pakistan.

Author : Ramesh Chandra Sharma,Pranati Ghosal
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Buddhist
ISBN : UOM:39015058961791

Get Book

Buddhism and Gandhāra Art by Ramesh Chandra Sharma,Pranati Ghosal Pdf

Contributed papers presented at the International Seminar on Buddhism and Gandhāra Art held at Jñāna-Pravāha, Varanasi from 1st-16th Nov. 2001; focussed on various facets of cultural development of Gandhāra art in a historical perspective.

Author : Sir John Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040790714

Get Book

The Buddhist Art of Gandhara by Sir John Marshall Pdf

Author : Ihsan H. Nadiem
Publisher : Sang-E-Meel Publication
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059960891

Get Book

Buddhist Gandhara by Ihsan H. Nadiem Pdf

Author : Yuvraj Krishan
Publisher : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 8121505658

Get Book

The Buddha Image by Yuvraj Krishan Pdf

Illustrations: 247 b/w illustrations Description: This book deals with crucial though controversial questions in Buddhist art: the origin of the Buddha image and the iconography of the Buddha images. The earliest Buddhist art of Sanchi and Bharhut is aniconic : The Buddha is represented in symbols only. In the later Buddhist art of Gandhara and Mathura, the Buddha is represented in human form: he is the principal subject of sculptural art. The book seeks to explore the geographical area in which the image of the Buddha first emerged and whether the Buddhist doctrines-Hinayana or Mahayana-had anything to do with this transformation. The Buddha image, as developed eventually at Sarnath, became the model for the Buddha images in whole of Asia, south-east, central and eastern Asia. The iconographic features of the Buddha image are superficially an aberration, being in apparent conflict with the doctrine. The Buddha had cut off his hair at the time of his renunciation; the rules of the order enjoin that a monk must be tonsured and must discard and eschew all riches. However, in his images, the Buddha has hair on his head; later he is also endowed with a crown and jewels. After an exhaustive examination of the views of various scholars, the book answers these questions and resolves the controversies on the basis of literary, numismatic and epigraphic sources. More importantly it makes use of the valuable evidence from the contemporaneous Jaina art : Aniconism of early Jaina art and the iconographic features of Jaina images. The implications of this study are also important : Does India owe idolatry to Buddhism? Was this of foreign inspiration? Was the Buddha image fashioned after the Vedic Brahma and whether the Buddha's usnisa and Buddhist art motifs are rooted in the Vedic tradition? The book is profusely illustrated and provides rich and stimulating fare to students of Indian art in general and of Buddhist art in particular.

Author : Shanti Lal Nagar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Gandhara
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215110904

Get Book

Buddha in Gandhāra Art and Other Buddhist Sites by Shanti Lal Nagar Pdf

Author : Sir John Hubert Marshall,Sir John Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015266755

Get Book

The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra by Sir John Hubert Marshall,Sir John Marshall Pdf

Author : Bérénice Geoffroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : 2843232945

Get Book

Gandhara by Bérénice Geoffroy Pdf

Gandhara was a historic region in the northwest of ancient India, currently Pakistan and Afghanistan, best known for its Greco-Buddhist school of sculpture. In its interpretation of Buddhist legends, the Gandhara school incorporated many motifs and techniques from classical Roman art while remaining Indian at its core. It depicted Buddha in human form for the first time, blending Hellenistic and Indian influences, often with features resembling the Greek god Apollo. Today, despite an international outcry, Afghanistan's ruling Taliban religious army has instituted a policy of demolishingall Gandhara statues, calling them "un-Islamic." Exquisitely illustrated, Gandhara: The Memory Of Afghanistan pays tribute to an art under siege, documenting its importance in world history.