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Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, Vol. 8: Manjusri-Nyoze-en

Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, Vol. 8: Manjusri-Nyoze-en

Lokesh Chandra

ISBN: 9788177420524, 8177420526

Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, Vol.14: Vajrakumara--Vasumitra

Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, Vol.14: Vajrakumara--Vasumitra

Lokesh Chandra

ISBN: 9788177420630, 8177420631

Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, Vol.15: Vasundhara--Zyokukai (finis)

Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, Vol.15: Vasundhara--Zyokukai (finis)

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............

Divine presence: arts of India and the Himalayas, photography by John Bigelow Taylor

Divine presence: arts of India and the Himalayas, photography by John Bigelow Taylor

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...

The dragon's gift: the sacred arts of Bhutan, ed. by Terese Tse  Bartholomew et al

The dragon's gift: the sacred arts of Bhutan, ed. by Terese Tse Bartholomew et al


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...

Early Buddhist architecture in context: the great Stupa at Amaravati (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE)

Early Buddhist architecture in context: the great Stupa at Amaravati (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE)

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.

Early Himalayan art

Early Himalayan art

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.

Ecstasy of classical art: Indian bronze, National Museum collection, with contributions from Sharada Srinivasan

Ecstasy of classical art: Indian bronze, National Museum collection, with contributions from Sharada Srinivasan

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.

Elements of Buddhist iconography, new 2nd edition, rev. & enl. in accordance with author's notes, ed. by Krishna Deva

Elements of Buddhist iconography, new 2nd edition, rev. & enl. in accordance with author's notes, ed. by Krishna Deva

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...

Embodied enlightenment: Samundra Man Singh Shrestha, contemporary Newar Paubha Paintings, by Dina Bangdel, with essays by Prajwol Shakya et al.

Embodied enlightenment: Samundra Man Singh Shrestha, contemporary Newar Paubha Paintings, by Dina Bangdel, with essays by Prajwol Shakya et al.


ISBN: 9789937008785, 9937008786

Catalog of an exhibition from the collection of Anjana and Purna Shakya, organized by Bodhisattva Gallery in Kathmandu, 2016.

Empowered masters: Tibetan wall paintings of Mahasiddhas at Gyantse

Empowered masters: Tibetan wall paintings of Mahasiddhas at Gyantse

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...

Enlightened ways: the many streams of Buddhist art in Thailand

Enlightened ways: the many streams of Buddhist art in Thailand

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.

Foundations of oriental art and symbolism: introduction to Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist Art, ed. by Michael Oren Fitzgerald, foreword by Brian Keeble

Foundations of oriental art and symbolism: introduction to Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist Art, ed. by Michael Oren Fitzgerald, foreword by Brian Keeble

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...

New facets of early historical archaeology and Buddhist art and architecture: essays in honour of R.C. Agrawal,

New facets of early historical archaeology and Buddhist art and architecture: essays in honour of R.C. Agrawal,


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.

Fudo Myo-o (Acalanatha Vidyaraja), in art and iconography of Japan

Fudo Myo-o (Acalanatha Vidyaraja), in art and iconography of Japan

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...

Function and meaning in Buddhist art

Function and meaning in Buddhist art

Kooji, KR van et al (ed.)

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