Handa, Devendra
ISBN: 9788173053078, 8173053073
The book discusses the iconography and style of all important Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina images discovered from the state so far. It lists two hundred sites which have yielded sculptural remains and is an outcome of surveys and researches for over four decades.
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...
Benisti, Mireille (1909-1993)
ISBN: 9788173052439, 8173052433
Vol.1: Text. Vol.2: Plates.;;;Contents: (i) A study of Stupas in ancient India. (ii) The ornamental Vedika. (iii) Stupas with five pillars. (iv) Apropos the Triratna. (v) Contribution to the study of the Indian Buddhist Stupa: the minor Stupas of Bodh-Gaya and Ratnagiri.
Benisti, Mireille (1909-1993)
ISBN: 9788173052569, 8173052565
Vol.1: Text. Vol.2: Plates.;;;The present volume contains translations of Benisti's major publications dealing with Khmer art.
Ray, Ranesh and Jan Van Alphen
ISBN: 9788174364951, 8174364951
Contents: (i) Preface (ii) Foreword (iii) Introduction (iv) Exhibition (v) Contribution: (a) The myth of `The Churning of the primeval ocean' by Jan Van Alphen. (b) Art, patrons, and social identity in early Mathura (2nd century BCE to 3rd century CE) by Chandreyi Basu. (c) The intention behind Surasundaris: the `Beautiful Celestials' of temple art by Devangana Desai. (d) Khajuraho: makers, pla...
ISBN: 9789860168037, 9860168032
This is from the collection of Mr. Wen-Yen Liu, who has been collecting Tibetan art crafts for many years. His rich collection includes sculpture, deity statues, accessories, and in particular, hundreds of Thang-Ka pieces. These Thang-Kas, selected from Liu's collection, are on display at the Tibetan Thang-Ka exhibition co-hosted by National Museum of History and Taichung County Seaport Art Cen...
Heller, Amy
ISBN: 9788816690042, 8816690046
Satyawadi, Sudha
ISBN: 9788173054303, 8173054304
This book is a humble effort of the author to present her admiration for Ajanta paintings through line drawings.
ISBN: 9788187138730, 8187138734
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Katre, S.M.
ISBN: 9788173056567, 8173056560
This book touches upon the most interesting and vital topic of continuities in ancient Indian thought, with special reference to the possible links in ideas and concepts between the Upanishads and the formative stage of Buddhism as represented by the early ballads. The first part deals with the nature, growth and origin of the ballads and also makes observations about the social conditions of t...
Sekhar, Sashi
This book, first in a series on the history of religion in Andhra, tries to perceive the pace of the wheel and its tracks focussing on the terrain of early Andhra, centred on archaeology and linear interpretation of data. The task involved over 18 years of examining and analysing material running into several hundreds of books, reports, articles, epigraphys, coins, oral testimonies of people li...
Smith, Vincent A.
ISBN: 9789383723829, 9383723823
The book contains biography and the administration of prominent Indian emperor Asoka of the Maurya Dynasty. Asoka, a son of Bindusara and the third sovereign of the Mauryan Dynasty ascended the throne of Patlipura (BC 273) and undertook the government of Indian empire. He held the government for about 40 years. The numerous inscriptions recorded by Asoka are the leading authority for the events...
Harrison, John
ISBN: 9789937069427, 9937069424
Mustang is a district in Nepal, but it lies north of the main Himalayan chain, on the Tibetan plateau. Tibetan Buddhist temples were built in Mustang and adorned with magnificent wall paintings, and they survive today when much of the architecture and art of Tibet itself was lost during the Chinese Culture Revolution from 1966 to 1976.
Handa, O.C.
ISBN: 9788173056529, 8173056528
The Western Himalayan region conjures up a vision of vast snow-covered mountainscape with the evergreen and lofty deodar forests. Besides, it has been a home to innumerable ancient and magnificent wooden temples, Buddhist monasteries and traditional wooden houses. All these aspects have been studied in detail in this book. Some of the finest examples of longevity of this timber are the more tha...
Gutschow, Niels
ISBN: 9789937733311, 9937733316
This volume is a compilation of architectural evidence. The text reveals a profound understanding of the cultural context of the caityas, their forms and sculptural decoration. It contains hundreds of beautifully executed measured drawings and finely printed photographs of never, or hardly ever studied monuments in the Kathmandu Valley.
Davids, A.F. Rhys
ISBN: 9788121226561, 8121226562
A Buddhist manual of psychological ethics of the fourth century B.C., being a translation, now made for the first time from the original Pali, of the first book in the Abhidhamma pitaka, entitled, Dhamma-sangani (Compendium of states or phenomena) with introductory essay and notes by the author. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremel...
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