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Author : Gerd J. R. Mevissen,Arundhati Banerji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 8174790942
Gouriswar Bhattacharya, b. 1924, Indian epigraphist; contributed articles.
Author : Gerd J. R. Mevissen,Arundhati Banerji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 8174790969
Prajnadhara: Essays on Asian Art, History, Epigraphy and Culture is a collection of fifty-one research papers in honour of Dr. Gouriswar Bhattacharya, contributed by authors from India and abroad who acknowledge the eminent scholar of Bengal origin as a stalwart on every aspect of Indian art and Indological studies. Bound in to volumes, these articles with notes, references and bibliographies, are well illustrated and cover a wide range of topics relating to Indian, Tibetan, Southeast Asian and Central Asian art, architecture, iconography, painting, epigraphy, numismatics, religion, heritage management and photography. The papers are grouped into seven sections according to distinct geographical regions viz. Section I: Gandhara; Section II: Northern India, Central India, Nepal; Section III: Western India; Section IV: Southern India; Section V: Eastern India and Bangladesh; Section VI: Pan-Indian Issues; and Section VII: Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Tibet.
Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Wannaporn Rienjang,Peter Stewart
Publisher : Archaeopress
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781784918552
Since the beginning of Gandhāran studies in the nineteenth century, chronology has been one of the most significant challenges to the understanding of Gandhāran art. Many other ancient societies, including those of Greece and Rome, have left a wealth of textual sources which have put their fundamental chronological frameworks beyond doubt. In the absence of such sources on a similar scale, even the historical eras cited on inscribed Gandhāran works of art have been hard to place. Few sculptures have such inscriptions and the majority lack any record of find-spot or even general provenance. Those known to have been found at particular sites were sometimes moved and reused in antiquity. Consequently, the provisional dates assigned to extant Gandhāran sculptures have sometimes differed by centuries, while the narrative of artistic development remains doubtful and inconsistent. Building upon the most recent, cross-disciplinary research, debate and excavation, this volume reinforces a new consensus about the chronology of Gandhāra, bringing the history of Gandhāran art into sharper focus than ever. By considering this tradition in its wider context, alongside contemporary Indian art and subsequent developments in Central Asia, the authors also open up fresh questions and problems which a new phase of research will need to address. Problems of Chronology in Gandhāran Art is the first publication of the Gandhāra Connections project at the University of Oxford’s Classical Art Research Centre, which has been supported by the Bagri Foundation and the Neil Kreitman Foundation. It presents the proceedings of the first of three international workshops on fundamental questions in the study of Gandhāran art, held at Oxford in March 2017.
Author : Johan Elverskog
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780812251838
"An environmental history of Buddhism. The book addresses the basic concerns of environmental history: the history of human thought about "nature" or "the environment"; the influence of environmental factors on human history; and the effect of human-caused environmental changes on human society"--
Author : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1131 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110604931
The second volume of the Handbook describes different extractive economies in the world regions that have been outlined in the first volume. A wide range of economic actors – from kings and armies to cities and producers – are discussed within different imperial settings as well as the tools, which enabled and constrained economic outcomes. A central focus are nodes of consumption that are visible in the archaeological and textual records of royal capitals, cities, religious centers, and armies that were stationed, in some cases permanently, in imperial frontier zones. Complementary to the multipolar concentrations of consumption are the fiscal-tributary structures of the empires vis-à-vis other institutions that had the capacity to extract, mobilize, and concentrate resources and wealth. Larger volumes of state-issued coinage in various metals show the new role of coinage in taxation, local economic activities, and social practices, even where textual evidence is absent. Given the overwhelming importance of agriculture, the volume also analyses forms of agrarian development, especially around cities and in imperial frontier zones. Special consideration is given to road- and water-management systems for which there is now sufficient archaeological and documentary evidence to enable cross-disciplinary comparative research.
Author : Peter C. Bisschop,Elizabeth A. Cecil
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110674262
This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. The contributions engage with primary sources (including texts, images, material artefacts, monuments, as well as archaeological sites and landscapes) and draw needed attention to highly adaptable, innovative, and dynamic modes of cultural production within traditional idioms. The volume works to develop categories of historical analysis that cross disciplinary boundaries and represent a wide variety of methodological concerns. By revisiting premodern sources, Asia Beyond Boundaries also addresses critical issues of temporality and periodization that attend established categories in Asian Studies, such as the “Classical Age” or the “Gupta Period”. This volume represents the culmination of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project Asia Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a research consortium of the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, in partnership with Leiden University.
Author : Sitta Reden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110604948
The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient economic exchange in a global perspective with a strong focus on recent debates on the nature of pre-modern empires. The interdisciplinary team of Chinese, Indian and Graeco-Roman historians, archaeologists and anthropologists that has written this handbook compares different forms of economic development in agrarian and steppe regions in a period of accelerated empire formation during 300 BCE and 300 CE. It investigates inter-imperial zones and networks of exchange which were crucial for ancient Eurasian connections. Volume I provides a comparative history of the most important empires forming in Northern Africa, Europe and Asia between 300 BCE and 300 CE. It surveys a wide range of evidence that can be brought to bear on economic development in the these empires, and takes stock of the ways academic traditions have shaped different understandings of economic and imperial development as well as Silk-Road exchange in Russia, China, India and Western Graeco-Roman history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : WISC:89108196130
Author : Gergely Hidas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783110713367
This sourcebook explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dhāraṇī literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time: a unique palm-leaf bundle from the 12th–13th centuries and a paper manuscript of 1719 CE. The Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha collections have been present in South Asia, and especially in Nepal, for more than eight hundred years and served to supply protection, merit and auspiciousness for those who commissioned their compilation. For modern scholarship, these diverse compendiums are valuable sources of incantations and related texts, many of which survive in Sanskrit only in such manuscripts.
Author : Peter Skilling,Justin Thomas McDaniel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Buddhist art and symbolism
ISBN : OCLC:936144030
Author : Ellen Raven,Gerda Theuns-de Boer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004473003
An extensive, illustrated bibliography for the Hindu god Śiva in the arts of South and Southeast Asia, offering detailed indices and easy access to resource repositories.
Author : Kurt A. Behrendt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004135952
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 : Peter Skilling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 3895001996
The twelve essays in this volume survey aspects of Buddhism and Buddhist literature in pre-modern South-East Asia and Thailand, drawing on Pali and vernacular texts, liturgy, and inscriptions. They discuss Theravadin conceptions of the Bodhisatta, relations between Sanskrit and vernacular literature in Thailand, and questions of the transmission and dissemination of Buddhist ideas and narratives through sermon and ceremony. The texts studied are both products and agents in the intellectual and social world of South-East Asian Buddhism. Broader questions include the advent of Theravada Buddhism to South-East Asia anf the role of South-East Asia in Buddhist studies.
Author : Ryugen Tanemura
Publisher : Groningen Oriental Studies
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121805035
A critical edition and annotated translations of selected sections.
