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Candi Mendut: womb of the Tathagata

Candi Mendut: womb of the Tathagata

Long, Mark

ISBN: 9788177420968, 8177420968

This Candi Mendut is a reflection of the sublime and stupendous Indrajala of the Javanese people when they attained unprecedented heights of power, when literary genius blossomed in their language of Javenese, when they enriched their lovely island with monumental structures that evoke wonder after twelve centuries, even in their ruined state. Mark Long has endeavored to interpret on these cele...

Twin mandalas of Vairocana in Japanese iconography, English  version from the French by Lokesh Chandra et al

Twin mandalas of Vairocana in Japanese iconography, English version from the French by Lokesh Chandra et al

Tajima, Ryujun

ISBN: 9788177421163, 8177421166

A fundamental work for the philosophic and artistic understanding of the theory and graphic representation of the mandalas in general and especially in the Shingon tradition of Japan. Details the philosophy, patriarchs and sacred canon of Mantrayana, its ulterior development into two branches in Japan, the nature and different kinds of mandalas, as well as their classification and essential pri...

Vajrayana Buddhism: study in social iconography

Vajrayana Buddhism: study in social iconography

Mishra, Umakanta

ISBN: 9788177022018, 8177022016

The book makes copious documentation of religious sites from archaeological and epigraphic sources to argue that poly-religiosity defines the religious landscape of early medieval Orissa, and then, it goes on to explain the relations between brahmanical religions and Buddhism. In the process, it analyses the support base of Buddhism, nature of monastic complex and various markets of support bas...

Vajrayana images of the Bao-xiang Lou (Pao-hsiang Lou), 3 vols.

Vajrayana images of the Bao-xiang Lou (Pao-hsiang Lou), 3 vols.

Bunce, Fredrick W.

ISBN: 9788124604809, 8124604800

These volumes contain an iconographic analysis and compilation of the over 760 images from the six chapels of the Pao-hsiang Lou (Baoxiang Lou) in the garden of the Tzu-ning Kung (palace of Kindness and Tranquility) in the Forbidden City, Beijing.;The pavilion Pao-hsiang Lou holds hundreds of Tibetan Buddhist images of remarkable quality. The volume present the entire set of images, each reprod...

Buddhist art of Tibet: in Milarepa's footsteps, symbolism and spirituality,

Buddhist art of Tibet: in Milarepa's footsteps, symbolism and spirituality,

Bock, Etienne et al

ISBN: 9782080280947, 2080280945

....ier. The Tibet Museum collection in the medieval city of Gruyeres, Switzerland offers a rare opportunity to discover Tibetan Buddhist art--an endangered world heritage--through some six hundred works. This volume also reveals the symbolism and spirituality associated with each work. Detailed analysis of a previously unpublished illuminated manuscript, which retraces the life of the great el...

Women in Buddhist art

Women in Buddhist art

Rao, Vinay Kumar

ISBN: 9788173201264, 8173201269

The archaeological and literary sources have manifested women in various roles since ancient times and are very magnificently projected in early Buddhist sculptural art. The presence of women in Buddhist sculptural do not only implies the cultural manifestations but also higlights the socio-economic role of women in that particular space and time. There are a plethora of inscriptions and sculpt...

Wonders of Lo: the artistic heritage of Mustang

Wonders of Lo: the artistic heritage of Mustang

Bue, Erberto Lo (ed.)

ISBN: 9789380581026, 9380581025

This volume is the first monograph on the artistic heritage of Lo. It deals with the most representative features of the religious art of the region, dwelling on painting, but without neglecting sculpture and architecture. Besides recording significant as well as hitherto unpublished religious sites of artistic relevance, it illustrates the restoration work carried out in important temples at M...

Wooden wonders: Tibetan furniture in secular and religious life

Wooden wonders: Tibetan furniture in secular and religious life

Kamansky, David

ISBN: 9781932476163, 1932476164

Presents for Buddha: the meaning of the eight auspicious symbols in Tibetan Buddhism, foreword by The Dalai Lama

Presents for Buddha: the meaning of the eight auspicious symbols in Tibetan Buddhism, foreword by The Dalai Lama


ISBN: 9789937733090, 993773309X

The book about the eight auspicious symbols, which play a central role in Tibetan Buddhism, have been considered since time immemorial as the original presents that the Vedic gods handed to the newborn Buddha. The present book throws a different light on the millennia-old history of these auspicious symbols, retracing their origins in the Stone Age and revealing their earliest manifestations on...

World's most beautiful Thangka, Vol.2: White Tara (China)

World's most beautiful Thangka, Vol.2: White Tara (China)

Shrestha, Romio et al

ISBN: 9787552701432, 7552701439

Essays and studies in the Art of Kucha

Essays and studies in the Art of Kucha

Konczak-Nagel, Ines and Monika Zin

ISBN: 9789387496262, 9387496260

The series Leipzig Kucha Studies, in which seventeen volumes are planned, aims at publishing the results of the long-term research project (2016-2030) Buddhist Murals of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road. The project, conducted under the auspices of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, focuses on an impressive corpus of wall paintings datable to approximately the fifth to tent...

Buddha and Shiva lotus and dragon: masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockfeller 3rd collection at Asia Society

Buddha and Shiva lotus and dragon: masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockfeller 3rd collection at Asia Society

Proser, Adriana

This book presents sixty-seven masterpieces from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society, one of the most important collections of Asian art in America. In this beautifully illustrated volume, written by Adriana Proser, Asia Society Museum's John H. Foster Senior Curator of Traditional Asian Art, stunning artworks from across the continent testify to the diversity an...

Ellora: Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain sanctuaries

Ellora: Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain sanctuaries

Beguin, Gilles

ISBN: 9788874398720, 8874398727

Ellora, the largest cave site in India, is one of the pinnacles in the art of the sub-continent and embraces places of worship belonging to all three of India's main religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism, Caves with lavishly sculpted interiors stand alongside the stunning colossal complex of Kailasanatha, also carved from the rock.

Buddhist ritual art of Tibet: a handbook on ceremonial objects and ritual furnishings in the Tibetan temple

Buddhist ritual art of Tibet: a handbook on ceremonial objects and ritual furnishings in the Tibetan temple

Henss, Michael

ISBN: 9783897905672, 3897905671

The new work by the author is a presentation in great detail and scope, of the ritual art of Indo-Tibetan tantric Buddhism. In this book, the individual ceremonial implements and object groups are arranged in 18 chapters according to their ritual function and use, iconography and symbolism, typology and terminology, form and technical production.

Across the South of Asia: a volume in honor of Robert L. Brown, foreword by Tushara Bindu Gude,

Across the South of Asia: a volume in honor of Robert L. Brown, foreword by Tushara Bindu Gude,


ISBN: 9788124610053, 8124610053

This volume of essays dedicated to Robert L. Brown--Bob, as he is affectionately known--is being published at a particularly significant moment in his career.

Die Ikonographie: des Nepalesischen Buddhismus

Die Ikonographie: des Nepalesischen Buddhismus

Shakya, Min Bahadur

ISBN: 9789993377948, 9993377945

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