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Author : Hans Bakker
Publisher : Gonda Indological Studies
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060993071
Illustrations: Illustrations
Author : Julia Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1029 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315432632
The “monumental bias” of Buddhist archaeology has hampered our understanding of the socio-religious mechanisms that enabled early Buddhist monks to establish themselves in new areas. To articulate these relationships, Shaw presents here the first integrated study of settlement archaeology and Buddhist history, carried out in the area around Sanchi, a Central Indian UNESCO World Heritage site. Her comprehensive, data-rich, and heavily illustrated work provides an archaeological basis for assessing theories regarding the dialectical relationship between Buddhism and surrounding lay populations. It also sheds light on the role of the introduction of Buddhism in changing settlement patterns.This volume was originally published in 2007 by the British Association of South Asian Studies.
Author : Rajesh Kumar Singh
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781803277189
This book offers a new scholarly exploration of the rock-cut Ajanta Caves located in the modern-day Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India, their sculpture and paintings. The book meticulously traces the rise, transformation, and legacy of these architectural marvels from the late third century BC to around AD 480.
Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674726512
The claim that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. Romila Thapar, a distinguished scholar of ancient India, guides us through a panoramic survey of the historical traditions of North India, revealing a deep and sophisticated consciousness of history embedded in the diverse body of classical Indian literature. The history recorded in such texts as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata is less concerned with authenticating persons and events than with presenting a picture of traditions striving to retain legitimacy amid social change. Spanning an epoch from 1000 BCE to 1400 CE, Thapar delineates three strains of historical writing: an Itihasa-Purana tradition of Brahman authors; a tradition composed mainly by Buddhist and Jaina monks and scholars; and a popular bardic tradition. The Vedic corpus, the epics, the Buddhist canon and monastic chronicles, inscriptional evidence, regional accounts, and literary forms such as royal biographies and drama are all scrutinized afresh--not as sources to be mined for factual data but as genres that disclose how Indians of ancient times represented their own past to themselves.
Author : Colin Renfrew,Michael J. Boyd,Iain Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781316368626
Modern archaeology has amassed considerable evidence for the disposal of the dead through burials, cemeteries and other monuments. Drawing on this body of evidence, this book offers fresh insight into how early human societies conceived of death and the afterlife. The twenty-seven essays in this volume consider the rituals and responses to death in prehistoric societies across the world, from eastern Asia through Europe to the Americas, and from the very earliest times before developed religious beliefs offered scriptural answers to these questions. Compiled and written by leading prehistorians and archaeologists, this volume traces the emergence of death as a concept in early times, as well as a contributing factor to the formation of communities and social hierarchies, and sometimes the creation of divinities.
Author : Pia Brancaccio
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004185258
Drawing on a large corpus of cross-disciplinary evidence, this book sheds light on the life of the Aurangabad caves and offers new interpretations on the development of Buddhist art and practice in the region, from the diffusion of early rock-cut monasteries to the advent of Mahayana and the emergence of esoteric art and rituals.
Author : Rajesh Kumar Singh
Publisher : Hari Sena Press Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788192510705
This book presents the latest and updated information about the Ajanta caves, their histories, and painted themes. For the first time, a book accommodates-within the space of a single volume-many dimensions and components of the caves. It includes the latest research by the author on the gradual development of the caves. historical framework formulated by Walter M. Spink. identifications of the narrative paintings by Dieter Schlingloff. identifications of the devotional and ornamental paintings by Monika Zin. summaries of nearly all the narrative paintings (84 stories). corpus of photo documentation on the paintings, sculptures, and architecture. attempt on long exposure photography in poorly lit conditions. The language is so crafted as to help the students, travellers, and general readers grasp the beauty and complexities of Ajanta and the times. At the same time the content is so packed, and the issues discussed in such a manner, as to keep the expert readers engaged.
Author : Hans T. Bakker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004412071
The 31 selected and revised articles in the volume Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet, written by Hans Bakker between 1986 and 2016, vary from theoretical subjects to historical essays on the classical culture of India. They combine two mainstreams: the Sanskrit textual tradition, including epigraphy, and the material culture as expressed in works of religious art and iconography. The study of text and art in close combination in the actual field where they meet provides a great potential for understanding. The history of holy places is therefore one of the leitmotivs that binds these studies together. One article, "The Ramtek Inscriptions II", was co-authored by Harunaga Isaacson, two articles, on "Moksadharma 187 and 239–241" and "The Quest for the Pasupata Weapon," by Peter C. Bisschop.
Author : Sachindra Kumar Maity
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : India
ISBN : 039102809X
The Book Opens With A Critical Survey Of Religion, Art And Culture And Their Impact On People And Society At Large. Buddhism, Jainism And Bhakti Movements, All Are Judiciously Incorporated In The Present Monograph.
Author : Jason Neelis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004194588
This exploration of early paths for Buddhist transmission within and beyond South Asia retraces the footsteps of monks, merchants, and other agents of cross-cultural exchange. A reassessment of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources reveals hisorical contexts for the growth of the Buddhist saṅgha from approximately the 5th century BCE to the end of the first millennium CE. Patterns of dynamic Buddhist mobility were closely linked to transregional trade networks extending to the northwestern borderlands and joined to Central Asian silk routes by capillary routes through transit zones in the upper Indus and Tarim Basin. By examining material conditions for Buddhist establishments at nodes along these routes, this book challenges models of gradual diffusion and develops alternative explanations for successful Buddhist movement.
Author : Elizabeth A. Cecil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004424425
In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth A. Cecil explores the sacred geography of the earliest community of Śiva devotees called the Pāśupatas. This book brings the narrative cartography of the Skandapurāṇa into conversation with physical landscapes, inscriptions, monuments, and icons in order to examine the ways in which Pāśupatas were emplaced in regional landscapes and to emphasize the use of material culture as media through which notions of belonging and identity were expressed. By exploring the ties between the formation of early Pāśupata communities and the locales in which they were embedded, this study reflects critically upon the ways in which community building was coincident with place-making in Early Medieval India.
Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004201408
This book deals with the confrontation of Buddhism and Brahmanism in India. Both depended on support from the royal court, but Buddhism had less to offer in return than Brahmanism. Buddhism developed in a manner to make up for this.
Author : Eric Huntington
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780295744070
Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the center of Buddhist thought, art, and practice. In�Creating the Universe,�Eric Huntington presents examples of visual art and architecture, primary texts, ritual ideologies, and material practices�accompanied by extensive explanatory diagrams�to reveal the immense complexity of cosmological thinking in Himalayan Buddhism. Employing comparisons across function, medium, culture, and history, he exposes cosmology as a fundamental mode of engagement with numerous aspects of religion, from preliminary lessons to the highest rituals for enlightenment. This wide-ranging work will interest scholars and students of many fields, including Buddhist studies, religious studies, art history, and area studies.
Author : Dániel Balogh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110649789
The Aulikaras were the rulers of western Malwa (the northwest of Central India) in the heyday of the Imperial Guptas in the fifth century CE, and rose briefly to sovereignty at the beginning of the sixth century before disappearing from the spotlight of history. This book gathers all the epigraphic evidence pertaining to this dynasty, meticulously editing and translating the inscriptions and analysing their content and its implications.
Author : John Guy,Pierre Baptiste,Lawrence Becker,Bérénice Bellina,Robert L. Brown,Federico Carò,Pattaratorn Chirapravati (M.L.),Janet G. Douglas,Arlo Griffiths,Agustijanto Indradjaya,Thị Liên Lê,Pierre-Yves Manguin,Stephen A. Murphy,Ariel O'Connor,Peter Skilling,Janice Stargardt,Donna K. Strahan,Thein Lwin (U.),Geoff Wade,Win Kyaing (U.),Hiram W. Woodward,Thierry Zéphir
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300204377
The first publication to explore Southeast Asian history from the 5th to 9th century through the region’s sculpture, this book offers a fresh and exciting approach to an enduring subject.
