Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra

Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra PDF

Author: Sree Padma Holt

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2008-08-07

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0791478149

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Explores the importance of Buddhism as it developed in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra (modern-day Andhra Pradesh) and its influence.

Early Buddhist Architecture in Context

Early Buddhist Architecture in Context PDF

Author: Akira Shimada

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-11-09

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9004233261

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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.

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