Buddhist Remains in South India and Early Andhra History, 225 A.D. to 610 A.D.
Author: K. R. Subramanian
Publisher: New Delhi : Cosmo Publications
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: K. R. Subramanian
Publisher: New Delhi : Cosmo Publications
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: K. R. Subramanian
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9788120604445
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrew Skilton
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780904766929
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chronicles the history of Buddhism and discusses where the religion originated, what its major beliefs are, how it has changed throughout history, and other related topics.
Author: Jas Elsner
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2024-07-06
Total Pages: 718
ISBN-13: 1789149088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A visual exploration of the Buddhist stupa or reliquary mounds at one of ancient India’s most remarkable monuments at Amarāvatī. In this book, Jaś Elsner presents a fresh perspective on the rich visual culture of ancient South Asia, connecting the stupa’s artistic innovations with advancements in Buddhist philosophy and practice. He offers new insights into early Buddhist art in South India, as well as a new understanding of the relationship between early Buddhism and its material culture. The photographs collected here, particularly those featuring objects from the British Museum in London, reveal in detail how the stupa communicated Buddhist teachings and practices to its followers, making this book an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
Author: Mishi Saran
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780143064398
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Author: D Dennis Hudson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780199709021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the crowning achievement of the remarkable scholar D. Dennis Hudson, bringing together the results of a lifetime of interdisciplinary study of south Indian Hinduism. The book is a finely detailed examination of a virtually unstudied Tamil Hindu temple, the Vaikuntha Perumal (ca. 770 C.E.). Hudson offers a sustained reading of the temple as a coherent, organized, minutely conceptualized mandala. Its iconography and structure can be understood in the light of a ten-stanza poem by the Alvar poet Tirumangai, and of the Bhagavata Purana and other major religious texts, even as it in turn illuminates the meanings of those texts. Hudson takes the reader step by step on a tour of the temple, telling the stories suggested by each of the 56 sculpted panels and showing how their relationship to one another brings out layers of meaning. He correlates the stories with stages in the spiritual growth of the king through the complex rituals that formed a crucial dimension of the religion. The result is a tapestry of interpretation that brings to life the richness of spiritual understanding embodied in the temple. Hudson's underlying assumption is that the temple itself constitutes a summa theologica for the Pancharatra doctrines in the Bhagavata tradition centered on Krishna as it had developed through the eighth century. This tradition was already ancient and had spread widely across South Asia and into Southeast Asia. By interweaving history with artistic, liturgical, and textual interpretation, Hudson makes a remarkable contribution to our understanding of an Indian religious and cultural tradition.
Author: Huu Phuoc Le
Publisher: Grafikol
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0984404309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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."