The Evolution Of Indian Stupa Architecture In East Asia

Author : Eric Stratton
Publisher : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8179360067

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The Evolution of Indian Stupa Architecture in East Asia by Eric Stratton Pdf

Contents: I. Introduction. II. Symbolic analysis of religious architecture. III. Indianization in Southeast Asia: lineage one: 1. Religious foundations. 2. Architecture. 3. Java. 4. Cambodia. 5. Champa. IV. Burma : lineage two: 1. Thai Era. 2. The lineages of stupa forms. V. The philosophical Indianization of Northeast Asia : the third lineage: 1. China. 2. Korea. 3. Japan. 4. Tibet. 5. Mongolia. 6. The Tibetan stupa. Bibliography."This work seeks to explore the development of East Asian architecture based upon its borrowings from the Indian stupa. While most scholars agree that some features of East Asian religious architecture have been strongly influenced by the symbolic architecture of the stupa, this study specifically seeks to identify three distinct architectural "lineages" originating from India to East Asia. These lineages were inspired by the work of Liang Ssu-Ch?eng who first identified several "families" of pagoda structures in Mainland China in the early part of the 20 century. However, here we extend our search to all the nations that have employed the stupa architecture outside India (and Nepal). These other lineages have been identified through careful analysis in archaeological, anthropological, historical, and religious studies."The first of these lineages extends through Indo-China and Indonesia. The second lineage is mainly found extending through Burma. Both lineages, one and two, meet together in later Thai architecture. The third lineage extends across Central Asia to the shores and nations of Far East Asia, such as Japan, Korea and China. As all the lineages are demonstrated to be imbued and propagated by the scared and ancient symbolism of India, each chapter examines the history of Indian thought as it was introduced into a region and then discusses the features of the most well known structures of that region." (jacket)

Author : Christopher Tadgell
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015048765443

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India and South-East Asia by Christopher Tadgell Pdf

The fifth volume explores the impact of religion and cosmology on building forms in Java, Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia. Stupendous monuments such as Angkor Wat in Cambodia are covered. 110 illustrations, 60 in color.

Author : Daigorō Chihara
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004105123

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Hindu-Buddhist Architecture in Southeast Asia by Daigorō Chihara Pdf

This book deals with the technical, artistic and architectural aspects of the Hindu and Buddhist monuments from the beginning until today in Southeast Asia.

Author : Sushila Pant
Publisher : Varanasi : Bharata Manisha
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X030121122

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Stupa architecture in India by Sushila Pant Pdf

Author : Adrian Snodgrass
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781501718960

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The Symbolism of the Stupa by Adrian Snodgrass Pdf

A close analysis of the architecture of the stupa—a Buddhist symbolic form that is found throughout South, Southeast, and East Asia. The author, who trained as an architect, examines both the physical and metaphysical levels of these buildings, which derive their meaning and significance from Buddhist and Brahmanist influences.

Author : Sambit Datta,David Beynon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317150930

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Digital Archetypes by Sambit Datta,David Beynon Pdf

This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from their origins in north western India to their subsequent spread and adaptation eastwards into Southeast Asia. While the epic monuments of Asia are well known, much less is known about the connections between their building traditions, especially the common themes and mutual influences in the early architecture of Java, Cambodia and Champa. While others have made significant historiographic connections between these temple building traditions, this book unravels, for the first time, the specifically compositional and architectural linkages along the trading routes of South and Southeast Asia. Through digital reconstruction and recovery of three dimensional temple forms, the authors have developed a digital dataset of early Indian antecedents, tested new technologies for the acquisition of built heritage and developed new methods for comparative analysis of built form geometry. Overall the book presents a novel approach to the study of heritage and representation within the framework of emerging digital techniques and methods.

Author : Mark Pizzato
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798765109120

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European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites by Mark Pizzato Pdf

Compares monumental designs and performance spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and related sanctuaries, exploring how brain networks, animal-human emotions, and cultural ideals are reflected historically and affected today as "inner theatre" elements. Integrating research across the humanities and sciences, this book explores how traditional designs of outer theatrical spaces left cultural imprints for the inner staging of Self and Other consciousness, which each of us performs daily based on how we think others view us. But believers also perform in a cosmic theatre. Ancestral spirits and gods (or God) watch and interact with them in awe-inspiring spaces, grooming affects toward in-group identification and sacrifice, or out-group rivalry and scapegoating. In a study of over 80 buildings – shown by 40 images in the book, plus thousands of photos and videos online – Pizzato demonstrates how they reflect meta-theatrical projections from prior generations. They also affect the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended (4E) cognition of current visitors, who bring performance frameworks of belief, hope, and doubt to the sacred site. This involves neuro-social, inner/outer theatre networks with patriarchal, maternal, and trickster paradigms. European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites investigates performative material cultures, creating dialogs between theatre, philosophy, history, and various (cognitive, affective, social, biological) sciences. It applies them to the architecture of religious buildings: from Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant in Europe, plus key sites in Jerusalem and prior “pagan” temples, to Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and imperial in China. It thus reveals individualist/collectivist, focal/holistic, analytical/dialectical, and melodramatic/tragicomic trajectories, with cathartic poetics for the future.

Author : Sujata Soni
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture, Buddhist
ISBN : 8120806263

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Evolution of Stupas in Burma by Sujata Soni Pdf

This work is the outcome of painstaking research on the evolution of stupas in Burma, Pagan Period, 11th to 13th centuries a.d. Burma known as the land of pagodas is nowhere so rich in the number of pagodas as in Pagan. The stupendous vastness of the ruins reminiscent of the glory that was of Pagan in its heyday inspired this study. The evolution traced back to the beginning of the stupa structure in India, deals with the various architectural phases (duly illustrated) it passed through ending with the final stage in the Rhwedagum Pagoda in Rangoon (Burma). Apart from the material side of the study, there is the need of looking into the aesthetic and spiritual side of the evolution. That religious architecture is a barometer of the material prosperity and social outlook of the people, besides being the handmaid of the spiritual aspirations of the devotees, is amply discernible in this study. The value of the art survey in this work is further enhanced by the inclusion of over 138 photographs. Moreover, besides the magnificent Pagan art, it gives a comparative view of the religious architectual development in the Asian countries contemporaneous with the Pagan Period.

Author : Huu Phuoc Le
Publisher : Grafikol
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhist architecture
ISBN : 9780984404308

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Buddhist Architecture by Huu Phuoc Le Pdf

"The volume thoroughly examines the origins and principal types of Buddhist architecture in Asia primarily between the third century BCE-twelfth century CE with an emphasis on India. It aims to construct shared architectural traits and patterns alongwith the derivative relationships between Indian and Asian Buddhist monuments. It also discusses the historical antecedents in the Indus Civilization and the religious and philosophical foundations of the three schools of Buddhism and its founder, Buddha. Previously obscure topics such as Aniconic and Vajrayana (Tantric) architecture and the four holiest sites of Buddhism will also be covered in this comprehensive volume. The author further investigates the influences of Buddhist architecture upon Islamic, Christian, and Hindu architecture that have been overlooked by past scholars."

Author : Vimalin Rujivacharakul,H. Hazel Hahn,Ken Tadashi Oshima,Peter Christensen
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888208050

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Architecturalized Asia by Vimalin Rujivacharakul,H. Hazel Hahn,Ken Tadashi Oshima,Peter Christensen Pdf

How did terms like “Asia,” “Eurasia,” “Indochina,” “Pacific Rim” or “Australasia” originate and evolve, and what are their connections to the built environment? In addressing this question,Architecturalized Asia bridges the fields of history and architecture by taking “Asia” as a discursive structure and cultural construct, whose spatial and ideological formation can be examined through the lenses of cartography, built environments, and visual narratives. The first section, on the study of architecture in Asia from the medieval through early modern periods, examines icons and symbols in maps as well as textual descriptions produced in Europe and Asia. The second section explores the establishment of the field of Asian architecture as well as the political and cultural imagining of “Asia” during the long nineteenth century, when “Asia” and its regions were redefined in the making of modern world maps mainly produced in Europe. The third section examines tangible structures produced in the twentieth century as legible documents of these notional constructions of Asia. In exploring the ways in which “Asia” has been drawn and framed both within and without the continent, this volume offers cutting-edge scholarship on architectural history, world history and the history of empires. Written by architectural historians and historians specializing in Asia and European empires, this unique volume addresses the connection between Asia and the world through the lenses of built environments and spatial conceptualizations. Architecturalized Asiawill appeal to readers who are interested in Asian architecture, world architecture, Asian history, history of empires, and world history.

Author : Tom Lowenstein
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448885077

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The Civilization of Ancient India and Southeast Asia by Tom Lowenstein Pdf

Buddhism has produced a cultural legacy more glorious than most great faiths. Initially spreading throughout Asia, over the centuries it triumphed not by the might of military conquest but by virtue of its revolutionary ideas and profound insights. For two-and-a-half millennia, both wealthy patrons and humble devotees have created a rich legacy of sacred art and architecture, from devotion paintings and manuscripts to some of the most magnificent temples and monasteries ever built. Stunning color photographs present a vivid portrait of this venerable religion and its great treasures—from its place of origin in northern India and out through its diffusion among the different kingdoms and empires of central, southern and eastern Asia—examining each geographical region in turn and Buddhism's influence on and contribution to the culture. An illuminating commentary places the creations of Buddhist artists and artisans in their geographical, historical, and artistic contexts and explains the significance of the faith's devotional paintings, manuscript art, sculptures, architecture, and sacred motifs and symbols.

Author : Sirisena
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004644458

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Sri Lanka and South-East Asia by Sirisena Pdf

Author : Akira Shimada
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004233263

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Early Buddhist Architecture in Context by Akira Shimada Pdf

Since the dramatic discovery and tragic destruction of the monument in the 19th century, the Amarāvatī stūpa in the south-east Deccan has attracted many scholars but has also left many unanswered questions. Akira Shimada's Early Buddhist Architecture in Context provides an updated and comprehensive chronology of the stūpa and its architectural development based on the latest sculptural, epigraphic and numismatic evidence combined with the survey of the early excavation records. It also examines the wider social milieu of the south-east Deccan by exploring archaeological, epigraphic and related textual evidence. These analyses reveal that the flowering of the stūpa was not a simple accomplishment of the powerful Sātavāhana dynasty, but was the result of the long-term development of urbanization of this region between ca. 200 BCE-250 CE.

Author : Sambit Datta,David Beynon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1306840694

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Digital Archetypes: Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia by Sambit Datta,David Beynon Pdf

This unique book presents a broad multi-disciplinary examination of early temple architecture in Asia, written by two experts in digital reconstruction and the history and theory of Asian architecture. The authors examine the archetypes of Early Brahmanic, Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture from their origins in north western India to their subsequent spread and adaptation eastwards into Southeast Asia. While the epic monuments of Asia are well known, much less is known about the connections between their building traditions, especially the common themes and mutual influences in the early architecture of Java, Cambodia and Champa. While others have made significant historiographic connections between these temple building traditions, this book unravels, for the first time, the specifically compositional and architectural linkages along the trading routes of South and Southeast Asia. Through digital reconstruction and recovery of three dimensional temple forms, the authors have developed a digital dataset of early Indian antecedents, tested new technologies for the acquisition of built heritage and developed new methods for comparative analysis of built form geometry. Overall the book presents a novel approach to the study of heritage and representation within the framework of emerging digital techniques and methods.

Author : Kevin Trainor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521582806

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Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism by Kevin Trainor Pdf

This book is a serious study of relic veneration among South Asian Buddhists. Drawing on textual sources and archaeological evidence from India and Sri Lanka, including material rarely examined in the West, it looks specifically at the practice of relic veneration in the Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist tradition. The author portrays relic veneration as a technology of remembrance and representation which makes present the Buddha of the past for living Buddhists. By analysing the abstract ideas, emotional orientation and ritual behaviour centred on the Buddha's material remains, he contributes to the 'rematerializing' of Buddhism which is currently under way among Western scholars. This book is an excellent introduction to Buddhist relics. It is well written and accessible and will be read by scholars and serious students of Buddhism and religious studies for years to come.