Lokesh Chandra
ISBN: 9788177420524, 8177420526
Lokesh Chandra
ISBN: 9788177420548, 8177420542
Lokesh Chandra
ISBN: 9788177420630, 8177420631
Lokesh Chandra
ISBN: 9788177420647, 817742064X
This volume shows the iconic richesse of deities, e.g. Vayu has twenty-two forms from India, Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia, Chine, Japan, and Indonesia. Though some of them can be traced back to classical texts, the others are derived from pantheons, painting, sculptures and statuettes............
Casey, Jane et al.
ISBN: 9788874390229, 887439022X
The exhibition brings together over sixty of the world's finest examples of Indian and Himalayan art, drawn from twenty-six leading private and public collections in Europe and North America. The exhibition highlights the artistic achievements of several of the world's most imaginative and sophisticated aesthetic traditions. India's artistic heritage can be traced back at least to the third mil...
ISBN: 9781932476354, 1932476350
This book presents more than one hundred works of Buddhist art from Bhutan. The vast majority of these sacred items are from active monasteries and temples where the objects continue to be used in ritual practice. It includes twelve essays by Western and Bhutanese scholars on a variety of relevant topics ranging from biographies of Buddhist masters to the conservation of cultural properties. Th...
Shimada, Akira
ISBN: 9789004232839, 9004232834
The book provides an updated and comprehensive chronology of the stupa 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.
Heller, Amy
ISBN: 9788189497125, 818949712X
The Ashmolean Museum has an important collection of Buddhist metal sculptures and other works of religious art from the Himalayan regions of Tibet and Nepal. There richly diverse works of early Himalayan art are fully catalogued and illustrated, in many cases for the first time, in this book by Amy Heller.
Singh, Tejpal et al
ISBN: 9788185832371, 8185832374
The exquisite bronze sculptures of National Museum constitute one of the most important and representative collections in India. This catalogue with 98 choicest objects is an attempt to collate knowledge on the collection in a simple and accessible manner for visitors and scholars.
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K
ISBN: 9788173044328, 8173044325
The present study deals with the basic symbols of Buddhist art, viz., the Tree of Life, the Earth-Lotus, the Word-Wheel, the Lotus-Throne, and the Fiery Pillar, and shows that these symbols can be traced back beyond their first representation in Buddhist Iconography through the anicomic period of the Brahmanical Vedas, even into the Rig Vedic period itself, and that they represent a universal I...
ISBN: 9789937008785, 9937008786
Catalog of an exhibition from the collection of Anjana and Purna Shakya, organized by Bodhisattva Gallery in Kathmandu, 2016.
Schroeder, Ulrich von
ISBN: 9781932476248, 1932476245
Some of the most important Tibetan Buddhist monuments to have survived the ravages of history are the temples and chaples at Gyantse in Southern Tibet. In a chaple ont he upper floor of the Palkhor Tsuglagkhang there exist superb wall paintings of the legendary eighty-four mahasiddhas-tantric adepts who, through effort and practice, have attained perfection and are endowed with extraodinary pow...
Tan, Heidi
ISBN: 9789810746285, 9810746288
This book is published for the exhibition, Enlightened ways... presented at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 30 Nov. 2012 to 17 April 2013. Heidi Tan, the curator of the exhibition, has attempted to tell the story of Thai Buddhist art in the richest and most diverse manner possible.
Wikramagamage, Chandra
Sengupta, Arputharani
ISBN: 9789392556234, 9392556233
The Mahayana cult presents two realities. One is the sole position of the Buddha at the core, which has given a world religion. The other reality breaking through is the goddess-centered mortuary cult involving greek mythologies, hidden in plain view considering the secret nature of the Mystery Religion. Centaur to nude maidens, performance is part of the visual narrative in the Greco-Buddhist ...
Burckhardt, Titus
ISBN: 9788178223728, 8178223724
It is an edited collection of author's most important articles on Oriental art and symbolism, with page after page of illustrations from the traditional Oriental civilizations. These illustrations illuminate his insightful descriptions and explanations, providing the reader with a small taste of the beauty that permeated the traditional Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist worlds-a beauty that has in lar...
ISBN: 9789383221417, 9383221410
This volume collages twenty-six original research papers arranged under two sections: eight on early historical archaeology and eighteen on Buddhist art and architecture.
Biswas, Sampa
ISBN: 9788124606049, 8124606048
Shingon Buddhism - esoteric Buddhism was brought to Japan from China during the early ninth century - inspired a new spiritual energy that found expression in varied forms, especially in art and iconography. A radical change occurred with the introduction of new deities, among them the Five Great Kings, the most important of them being Fudo Myo-o, the conqueror of all disasters and evil. This i...
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