Der-huey, Lee
ISBN: 9788186700532, 8186700536
This book, based on the author's Ph. D. thesis offers a serious look at the exploration of ancient Indian literature-- Buddhism figurative literature in particular.
Hazra, Kanai Lal (b.1932)
ISBN: 9788186921371, 8186921370
Contents: (i) Political history of Indonesia. (ii) East Timor. (iii) Religious history of Indonesia: rise and growth of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. (iv) Indonesia's literature: (a) The old-Javanese literature. (b) The middle-Javanese literature. (v) Art, architecture and sculpture of Indonesia.
Ahmad, Zahiruddin
ISBN: 9788177420692, 8177420690
This book is an in-depth study of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet. The concentration is on ontology/epistemology and, to a somewhat lesser extent, soteriology. It is based on the writings of the Buddhist philosophers themselves, from the unknown authors of the Pali `Abhidhamma' books down to the present Dalai Lama of Tibet. It takes into consideration the work of many twentieth century s...
Zin, Monika
ISBN: 9788173055898, 8173055890
The book delivers a profound analysis of the 60 monumental slabs which covered the dome of the as yet relatively unknown stupa at Kanaganahalli (Karnataka), one of the greatest discoveries of the Archaeological Survey of India in the 20th century. The study presents a stylistic examination of the reliefs and tentatively determines their original sequence. Using the Prakrit inscriptions on the s...
ISBN: 9789392510021, 9392510020
Vol.1: Introduction, synopses, translation of books 1 and 2, with a photogravure of a palm-leaf manuscript. ISBN: 9789392510434; Vol.2: Translation of books 3 to 12. ISBN: 9789392510519; Vol.3: Translation of books 13 to 26. ISBN: 9789392510595. The Dhammapada commentary is one of the best known Pali commentaries written on the stanzas of the Dhammapada, a Buddhist canonical text which for its ...
Buhnemann, Gudrun
ISBN: 9789937553049, 9937553040
This book describes, analyses and reproduces line drawings from two manuscripts and a related section from a third manuscript. The line drawings depict Hindu/Saiva and Buddhist deities and themes, but the Buddhist material is predominant, as one would expect in artists' sketchbooks from Patan.
Ram Swarup (1920-1998)
ISBN: 9788185990644, 8185990646
The exploration of consciousness is an ancient and unique specialization of Hindu spirituality which sees consciousness as the very ground and being of the entire universe. Consciousness is the key word for the Hindu mind and meditation is the main methodology to develop it. There is a new interest in spirituality today, evidenced by the popularity of Yoga and meditation worldwide but it appear...
Wayman, Alex
ISBN: 9788120816466, 8120816463
This first volume is in two parts: Part I (introductory) has Asanga's rules of debate, Dharmakirti's Nyayabindu with Kamalasila's commentary, and Santipa's treatise on 'inner pervation. Part II, devoted to the Dignaga-Dharmakirti system, has five sets of eleven verses, then a study of Bu-Ston's commentary on Dharmakirti's Pramanaviniscaya, and finally Tsong-kha-pa's Mun sel on the seven books o...
Lokesh Chandra et al.
ISBN: 9788179360002, 8179360008
This book is a collection of symbolic hand postures used in the rituals of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism of the Shingon denomination.
Dorje Chhering
ISBN: 9789386463487, 9386463482
Lahaul Valley, situated amid the high and barren Himalayan mountain ranges, remains secluded and peaceful, and the inhabitants, having survived in the face of a harsh environment, have developed and given protection to their unique cultural heritage.
Khanna, Amar Nath (b.1936)
ISBN: 9788173052385, 8173052387
Contain an account of eighty pilgrim shrines scattered throughout India, as well as in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The survey of Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Christian and Sufi pilgrim shrines in India, their mythology, archaeology, history and art and the listing of pilgrim shrines in neighbouring countries vouchsafes an intimate glimpse into the glorious cultural heritage of the I...
Roveda, Vittorio et al.
ISBN: 9789749863992, 9749863992
This important book, with a summary in Khmer is the first attempt to document the art and meaning of preah bot in Cambodian society at a time when the production of such cloths for religious use is gradually disappearing and being replaced by commercial production for tourists or art collectors.
ISBN: 9788120801011, 8120801016
These volumes include the translation of all the most important works seven non-Christian religions, i.e., Buddhist, Chinese, Islam, Jainism, Parsis and Vedic-Brahmanic system that have exercised a profound influence on the civilization of the continent of Asia.;;Vol.1 & 15: The Upanishads, 2 parts.;Vol.2 & 14: The sacred laws of the Aryas as taught in the schools of Apastamba, Gautama, Vasisth...
Chaudhuri, Saroj Kumar
ISBN: 9788177421101, 8177421107
This book covers the great academic exchange that took place between Indian monks and Chinese intellectuals during the first millennium of the Christian era. Information on Sanskrit linguistics transmitted by Indian monks helped Chinese intellectuals to evolve a phonetic system to read their pictographic script. The author taught Japanese language in the School of Foreign Languages, Ministry of...
Isaacs, Ralph
ISBN: 9786162150739, 6162150739
Sazigyo are Burmese tablet-woven bands that were used to bind palm-leaf manuscripts. In these wonderful weaves, brightly colored lines of elegant script are interspersed with fascinating, miniature pictures of animals and other objects. This richly illustrated book presents an unfamiliar specialized subject to a wide readership. Nine hundred beautiful illustrations show parts of over two hundre...
Eakins, Nicholas
ISBN: 9789390658879, 939065887X
The new Union Territory of Ladakh includes the districts of Leh and Kargil as well as the districts--now in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir--of Gilgit, Gilgit Wazrat and Chilas. The author, has been exploring and capturing this Himalayan range, through his camera for the last 32 years.
Bopearachchi, Osmund
ISBN: 9789350981375, 9350981378
This groundbreaking volume explores a revelatory Andharan style relief recently discovered in Sri Lanka. It adds to the growing body of archeological evidence of important exchanges between the Buddhists of Sri Lanka and their co-religionists in the Krishna Valley. The present study is the first in a series of books by this author on Buddhist art.
Matthan, Ayesha et al.
ISBN: 9788186921722, 8186921729
The history of photography in South Asia is a story of itinerant practitioners, seeking to expand the eye of the lens by exposure to the farthest corners of the world.Though Ceylon came under British rule only in 1815, it followed the maritime expansion of the Portuguese, the Dutch, Danes and the French--the first of which identified it in their sea-charts as Zeilon, from which the modern name ...
Behera, Karuna Sagar et al.
ISBN: 9788173051319, 8173051313
In this monograph the important sculptures are analysed with reference to their aesthetic value, style and iconography. The iconographic features of Jaina, Buddhist and Brahmanical images have been described with photographic documentation to highlight Orissa's cultural splendour.
Luczanits, Christian et al
ISBN: 9789937733243, 9937733243
This book lies at an altitude of 3,850 meters, on a hill west of Lo Montang, the old capital of the Mustang kingdom, a very remote region in the Nepalese-Tibetan borderlands. While its foundation goes back to earlier times, its fifteenth-century enlargement established it as a thriving Buddhist institution providing a home to a huge number of monks and a remarkable collection of Buddhist materi...
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