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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art, Gandhara
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132361333
Author : Adriana G. Proser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878481125
Author : Ṣafdar ʿAlī Shāh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9699532041
Author : Muhammad Ashraf Khan,Abdul Ghafoor Lone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Buddhist
ISBN : UOM:39015064124590
Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351252744
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Buddhist sculpture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113032366
Author : Sir John Hubert Marshall,Sir John Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015266755
Author : Kurt Behrendt,Pia Brancaccio
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780774841283
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 : 454 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015267175
Author : John Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Art, Gandharan
ISBN : OCLC:251542485
Author : Wannaporn Rienjang,Peter Stewart
Publisher : Archaeopress
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789691870
Gandhāran art is usually regarded as a single phenomenon – a unified regional artistic tradition or 'school'. Indeed it has distinctive visual characteristics, materials, and functions, and is characterized by its extensive borrowings from the Graeco-Roman world. Yet this tradition is also highly varied. Even the superficial homogeneity of Gandhāran sculpture, which constitutes the bulk of documented artistic material from this region in the early centuries AD, belies a considerable range of styles, technical approaches, iconographic choices, and levels of artistic skill. The geographical variations in Gandhāran art have received less attention than they deserve. Many surviving Gandhāran artefacts are unprovenanced and the difficulty of tracing substantial assemblages of sculpture to particular sites has obscured the fine-grained picture of its artistic geography. Well documented modern excavations at particular sites and areas, such as the projects of the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Swat Valley, have demonstrated the value of looking at sculptures in context and considering distinctive aspects of their production, use, and reuse within a specific locality. However, insights of this kind have been harder to gain for other areas, including the Gandhāran heartland of the Peshawar basin. Even where large collections of artworks can be related to individual sites, the exercise of comparing material within and between these places is still at an early stage. The relationship between the Gandhāran artists or 'workshops', particular stone sources, and specific sites is still unclear. Addressing these and other questions, this second volume of the Gandhara Connections project at Oxford University’s Classical Art Research Centre presents the proceedings of a workshop held in March 2018. Its aim is to pick apart the regional geography of Gandhāran art, presenting new discoveries at particular sites, textual evidence, and the challenges and opportunities of exploring Gandhāra’s artistic geography.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Kurt A. Behrendt
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588392244
Author : Shaikh Khurshid Hasan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Buddhist antiquities
ISBN : 9694150965
Author : Rafi U. Samad
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875868592
The northwestern regions of Pakistan and southeastern regions of Afghanistan were once the heart of a highly developed civilization whose cultural impact was felt from China to Persia. A major center of Buddhism, its cultural attainments were highlights of ancient civilization. The author's research, accompanied by some 60 illustrations, offers Americans an entirely new understanding of the desolate region shown on the nightly news. The Persian, Greek and Central Asian invasions of Gandhara, rather than causing wide scale destruction in the region, promoted the development of a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society. After a gestation period of about half a millennium, this region blossomed into a unique civilization in the opening years of the Common Era. Detailed archaeological excavations were started at sites in northern Pakistan and Afghanistan in the late-19th century. Through these excavations, eminent archaeologists such as Aurel Stein, Alexander Cunningham, John Marshall, J. Barthoux and Professor A.H. Dani recovered hundreds of thousands of beautiful stone sculptures belonging to the Gandhara Civilization. In the last century or so, much has been written about the artistic quality of these beautiful stone sculptures. But hardly anything has been written about the Civilization itself that gave birth to these extraordinary pieces of art. In this book an effort has been made to present Gandhara in its wider perspective, highlighting the different features of a unique civilization in which many different races contributed and many cultures merged to bring about a major sociological change and establish a distinct cultural identity in this region of the South Asian sub-continent. This book is based on the author's analysis of archaeologists' reports, information gathered through extended visits to numerous archaeological sites associated with the lost Gandhara Civilization including those in the Taxila, Peshawar, Charsadda, Mardan and Swat regions in Pakistan, and study in museums. His research reveals a great deal of continuity in the field of socio-cultural development of the region, which is referred to in this book as Greater Gandhara, from the time it became a part of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE till the end of Kidara Kushan's rule in the 5th century CE. Further, it reveals that after the Achaemenids had established the physical and administrative infrastructure in Greater Gandhara, the continuity in socio-cultural development in the region was maintained mainly by the growing Buddhist population. This book illustrates the spirit of independence and features in the character of the ancient people of the Gandhara region which facilitated the sustained progress towards the emergence of the Gandhara Civilization. Following the invasion of Alexander the Great, his successors had no difficulty in colonizing Bactria (Northern Afghanistan) and Sogdia (Uzbekistan), but they could not do the same in Gandhara. Similarly the Scythians, Parthians and the Kushans ruled over the Central Asian region as colonizers, but not so in Gandhara. Here they ruled not over the people, but with the people. Their administration was highly de-centralized, with the locals playing a major role in the regional administration and having a major say in the social and cultural affairs of the entire population. Finally, the book highlights the interactive environment which prevailed in Gandhara throughout the transient and mature phases of the Gandhara Civilization: Alexander's companions hobnobbing with the naked fakirs of Taxila; Menander, the great Indus-Greek ruler, finding time to engage in prolonged question-and-answer sessions with Buddhist scholars at the monastery near Sagala (Sialkot); and the greatest of the Kushan conquerors, Kanishka, finding pleasure in the company of local intellectuals and artists such as Asvaghosha and Vasumitra, and presiding over the official launch of Mahayana Buddhism.