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Author : Simone Gaulier,Robert Jera-Bezard,Monique Maillard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004047441
Author : Simone Gaulier,Robert Jera-Bezard,Monique Maillard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004666726
Author : Baij Nath Puri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120803728
Buddhism in Central Asia is a saga of peaceful pursuit by Buddhist scholars from Kashmir and Kabul to propagate the message of the Buddha. This vast region between the Tien-Shan and the Kunlun ranges was the centre of activities of these Buddhist savants. Here people of different races and professions, speaking many languages, were finally blended into a cosmopolitan culture. This created an intellectual climate of high order. In this context, the famous silk trade route was helpful in adding to the material prosperity of the people in this region. The present study, therefore, is not one of Buddhism in isolation. It equally provides an account of the political forces confronting each other during the course of history of this region for well over a thousand years. For centuries the drifting desert sand of Central Asia enveloped this civilization and the religion connected with it. The late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century explorers and archaeologists successfully uncovered it at different centres along the old Silk Route. This has been helpful for a comprehensive study of Buddhism with its literature and art. The finds of hundreds of inscriptions have added to the cultural dimensions of the study.
Author : Sī. Esa Upāsaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UCAL:B3877061
A Systematic Work On The History Of Buddhism In Afghanistan Which Was A Very Influential Region In Central Asia With Close Socio-Cultural Interaction With Ancient Tibet-Based On The Author`S Explorations In The Field. 12 Chapters-Bibliography, Index. 47 Illustration Including A Map.
Author : Llewelyn Morgan
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847654397
The Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, carved in the sixth century AD, represented two aspects of the Buddha, universal and historical. In March 2001 the Taliban destroyed them. They were massive, 55m and 38m tall, hewn out of the solid rock face and it took weeks to bring them down. The Buddhas have a remarkable story to tell, from their creation at a time when Greek culture left behind by conquest influenced Buddhism to their role in the lead up to the destruction of two other colossi from a different era in New York in that same year. A book about the Buddhas is also a book about Bamiyan, a place that occupies one of the most strategic positions on earth and is also stunningly beautiful. And about the remarkable Hazara people who live in that valley and have played a central historical role in the history of the whole region. It is rare that a historical account of an extraordinary monument can also be of urgent contemporary relevance.
Author : Mishi Saran
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351182818
An Indian woman with a China craze, a Chinese monk with an Indian obsession; we had the same schizophrenia, the monk and I. It seemed logical to take the same road.' In the seventh century AD, the Chinese monk Xuanzang (earlier spelt as Hiuen Tsang or Hsuan Tsang) set off on an epic journey to India to study Buddhist philosophy from the Indian masters. Travelling along the Silk Road, through the desolate wastes of the Gobi desert and the icy passes of Central Asia, braving brigands and blizzards, Xuanzang finally reached India, where his spiritual quest took him to Buddhist holy places and monasteries throughout the subcontinent. By the time he returned to China eighteen years later, carrying with him nearly 600 scriptures which he translated from Sanskrit into Chinese, Xuanzang had covered an astonishing 10,000 miles. He also left a detailed record of his journey, which remains a valuable source of historical information on the regions he traversed. Fourteen hundred years later, Mishi Saran follows in Xuanzang's footsteps to the fabled oasis cities of China and Central Asia, and the Buddhist sites and now-vanished kingdoms in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan that Xuanzang wrote about. Travelling seamlessly back and forth in time between the seventh century and the twenty-first, Saran uncovers the past with consummate skill even as she brings alive the present through her vivid and engaging descriptions of people and places. Her gripping chronicle includes an extraordinary eyewitness account of Kabul under the Taliban regime, just one month before 9/11. Running parallel to the account of her travels is the moving story of the author's inner journey towards a new understanding of her roots and her identity. With its riveting mix of lively reportage, high adventure, historical inquiry and personal memoir, this delightfully written book is a path-breaking travelogue.
Author : Benoy K. Behl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 8120838130
Author : Boris Anatolʹevich Litvinskiĭ,Tamara Ivanovna Zeĭmalʹ
Publisher : ISIAO
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060788661
Author : Anupa Pande,Mandira Sharma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art, Buddhist
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210623703
Proceedings of the International Seminar on the Art of Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 1st cent. CE-14th cent. CE, held at New Delhi during 12-16 March 2007.
Author : Guand-da, Zhang,Litvinsky, B.,Shabani Samghabadi, R.,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231032110
In this third volume covering the flourishing period from the third to the eighth century A.D., scholars describe the powerful role played by the Sasanian state in Iran, the Gupta empire in India and the T'ang dynasty in China. Waves of nomadic migrations and the formation of steppe empires left their mark on political and social life. This multiethnic society had its roots in the great religious traditions of Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Christianity and Shamanism. The Islamization of a great part of the region brought fundamental changes to all aspects of life. Intensive trade along the Silk Route encouraged cultural and scientific exchanges, making this period one of impressive artistic and intellectual creativity.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9389967430
Author : Royal Ontario Museum,David Jongeward,University of Toronto. Centre for South Asian Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Buddhist sculpture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113032366
Author : Lokesh Chandra,Radha Banerjee,Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129052135
" ... papers, presented in an international seminar on Xuanzang and the Silk Route in 2003, at the IGNCA." -- P. [vii]
Author : Juntunen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136175190
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ram Rahul
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035667174