Taxila in Buddhist Gandhara

Nadien, Ihsan H

ISBN: 9789693520712, 9693520718

The present work is a treatise which focuses on the rich heritage of the limited area with unlimited influence of the Taxila valley. It studies only the golden age of Gandhara era.

Lalitavajra's manual of Buddhist iconography

Lohia, Sushama

ISBN: 9788185689975, 8185689970

The lightness of essence: Tibetan Buddhism relics of the Palace Museum, (Tibetan, French and English)

ISBN: 9789993746799, 9993746797

The Lightness of Essence-Tibetan Buddhism relics of the Palace Museum exhibition is the fifth time that the Palace Museum has collaborated with ;the Macao Museum of Art. This joint exhibition shows the imperial court's collection of Tibetan Buddhist works and has been extraordinary experinece for both parties as this is the first time the Macao Museum of Art has sponsored an exhibition on Tibet...

Maitreya Buddha in literature, history and art

Das, Asha

ISBN: 9788186791387, 8186791388

The book describes in detail the growth of Buddhist art and advent of Maitreya in the art and literature and the characteristics of its various forms in India and abroad.

Making sense of Buddhist art & architecture

Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum

ISBN: 9780500291696, 0500291691

Buddhist jewels in mortuary cult: magic symbols, 2 vols., foreword by B.R. Mani

Sengupta, Arputharani

ISBN: 9788173201448, 8173201447

Buddhist jewels from widespread mortuary clusters correlate with the adornment of the bodhisattvas and the divine female directing the fortunes of the departed. Courtesans mirror the yakshi and merge with various goddesses of the underworld. The domical mausoleums gather together interconnectedness of all things; magic symbols celebrate victory over dark death called Mara while the conception o...

The Matrix and diamond world Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism, 2 vols. bound in one (compact ed.)

Snodgrass, Adrian

ISBN: 9788185179278, 8185179271

Mirror of the Buddha: early portraits from Tibet, with contributions by Christian Luczanits

Jackson, David P

ISBN: 9780984519026, 0984519025

In this book the authors investigate painted portraits of early Tibetan teachers. Images of these eminent personages embodied Buddhist ideals in often idealized human form. In creating these depictions, Tibetan painters of the twelfth through fourteenth century intensely imitated the artistic conventions developed in Pala- and Sena-ruled eastern India (Bengal).

Mithuna in Buddhist art: with special reference to Amaravati and Nagarjunakonda

Piratti, Sudha (b.1971)

ISBN: 9788186050880, 8186050884

Mitrayogin's 108 mandalas: an image database

Tanaka, Kimiaki

ISBN: 9789937506922, 9937506921

This book is an English versian of Mandala Graphics, which was published in Japanese in April 2007. ;Each page contains one CG mandala based on the Hahn Foundation handscrolls, and each mandala is accompained by explanatory remarks. The inscription in Tibeten script (bottom left) is a transcription of the inscription in the original handscroll. Some of these inscriptions are problematic, but th...

Mudras in Buddhist and Hindu practices: an iconographic consideration

Bunce, Fredrick W

ISBN: 9788124603123, 812460312X

This book is a dictionary of mudras in Hindi and Buddhist religious practices that lists the various mudras-- deity-centred, rite-centred, yogic-centred, and so on-- illustrating each with a simple drawing drawn generally from the perspective of one holding the mudra.

Mudras in Japan

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.

Mural paintings in Wa-chen cave in western Tibet

ISBN: 9787223029766, 7223029765

In Chinese, Tibetan and English.

The museum: Mumbai, guidebook, 2nd ed.

Desai, Kalpana et al.

ISBN: 9788190102056, 8190102052

A guide book about the early 20th century Grade I Heritage Building and its wonderful representative works of art from its Indian as well as European and Far-East collections.

Must see.... 14 selected art objects from the museum

Buddhist archaeological monuments of Lahaul Valley

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.

The Nagapattinam and other Buddhist bronzes in the Chennai Museum, revised edition

Ramachandran, TN

Nalanda, 3 vols., 2nd edition

Misra, BN (b.1921)

ISBN: 9788176466325, 8176466328

Vol.1: Sources and background. Vol.2: Art. Vol.3: Iconography and architecture. ;;This book is the result of the painstaking research done by the author for a number of years and covers nearly all the important aspects of Nalanda-Sources, History, Education, Religion and Philosophy, Art, Iconography and Architechture etc. ;

Nepal: old images, new insights, ed. by Pratapaditya Pal

ISBN: 9788185026688, 8185026688

This richly illustrated book in an introduction and ten essays throws much new light on the artistic achievements of the Newar people.

Ornamental and decorative repertoire in the murals of Kizil

Fabritiis, Luca De

ISBN: 9789387496958, 9387496953

The book in revised version of a PhD thesis submitted at the University of Leipzig under the title Analysis of the Ornaments and Decorations in Murals of the Buddhist Site of Kizil and their Indian and Western Influences. It includes a comprehensive study of the decorative repertoire of the murals of Kizil in the Kucha region on the Northern Silk Road. This work focuses on the analysis of the f...