Buddhist art: form and meaning

Pal, Pratapaditya (ed.)

ISBN: 9788185026787, 8185026785

Contents: Introduction. (i) Pipal tree, tonsured monks and Ushnisha. (ii) The representation of the Buddha's birth and death in the aniconic period. (iii) Observations on The Representation of the Buddha's Birth and Death in the Aniconic Period. (iv) An unusual Naga-protected Buddha from Thailand. (v) The Naga-protected Buddha in the Norton Simon Museum: further comments. (vi) The Karandavyuha ...

The Buddhist art: Vietnamese perspectives

Bachchan Kumar (b.1958)

ISBN: 9788176465960, 8176465968

Chapter I: Ethnic composition.;Chapter II: Historical background.;Chapter III: Non-Buddhist religious sects.;Chapter IV: Development of Buddhism.;Chapter V: Prehistoric roots of Buddhist art.;Chapter VI: Buddhist art of Viets.;Chapter VII: Buddhist art of Chams.;Chapter VIII: Minor Buddhist art forms.;

Buddhist bronzes from Sirpur

Sharma, AK et al.

ISBN: 9788173200960, 8173200963

The book is a detailed, well researched account of a hoard of bronze sculptures recovered during Sirpur excavation in 2005-2008.

Buddhist bronzes of Odisha: a study in context of the evolution of Buddhist deities

Mohapatra, Sagarika

ISBN: 9788177024135, 8177024132

Buddhist cave temples of ancient India

Lama, G.K

ISBN: 9789380852232, 9380852231

Buddhist Goddesses of India, USA, 2006

Shaw, Miranda

ISBN: 9788121511957, 812151195X

This book is the first comprehensive, essential and definitive guide to the female panetheon. Beautifully illustrated, the book chronicles the historics, legends, and artistic portrayals of nineteen goddesses and several related human figures and texts.

Buddhist heritage of Bangladesh, ed. by Bulbul Ahmed

ISBN: 9789849016052, 9849016051

The book presents the whole range of information about all the aspects of Buddhist heritage of Bangladesh. Archaeological evidences and pilgrim accounts suggest that Buddhism created a rich culture and civilization in ancient Bangladesh from the 5th to 12th centuries AD.

Buddhist heritage of Orissa

Patnaik, Sunil Kumar

ISBN: 9788189626426, 8189626426

The monograph presents complete documented information about the Buddhist monuments, their location, art and architecture, iconography and their growth and decline during 3rd century B.C. to 15th century A.D. in Odisha.

Buddhist iconography and ritual in paintings and line drawings from Nepal

Buhnemann, Gudrun

ISBN: 9789994693344, 9994693344

The first section presents two paintings and an incomplete set of line drawings documenting a tradition of eighty-four (great) adepts ([maha] siddha) from Nepal. The 2nd section focuses on manifestations of (Cakra) samvaras, a form of Heruka, and includes a reproduction of images of two groups of Samvaras. The first document is a painted scroll showing the group of sixty-four Samvaras, the seco...

Buddhist iconography in Bihar, A.D. 600-1200

Mishra, Jayadeva

ISBN: 9789385161025, 9385161024

Buddhist iconography in Thailand: A South-East Asian perspective

Bhattacharyya, AK

ISBN: 9788186791714, 818679171X

Buddhist iconography in the National Museums of Tokyo and Kyoto

Bhattacharyya, AK

The Buddhist Monasteries: their art and architecuture

Singh, Sanghasen et al. (ed.)

Contains papers presented at a seminar held in 2000 on the theme of this books by scholars in Hindi, English and Tibetan.

Buddhist monuments

Mitra, Debala

The book covers practically all important Buddhist monuments and sites of present India, Pakistan and a part of the Nepalese Tarai which together formed India of the past. Apart form brief notices of various Buddhist places, no less than sixty-eight sites have been individually dealt with. The description of the sites is based not only on a fresh study of the well-known and little-known publish...

Buddhist monuments of Sirpur

Sharma, AK

ISBN: 9789380852409, 9380852401

This book deals about the Buddhist monuments unearthed from excavations conducted between 1999-2000 to 2003-04 at Sirpur, in district Mahasamund of Chattisgarh state.

Buddhist murals of Northeast Thailand: reflections of the Isan heartland

Brereton, Bonnie Pacala et al

ISBN: 9786169005315, 6169005319

This volume is the first to examine a vibrant sub-school of painting from the rural heartland of the Northeastern region, also known as Isan.

The Buddhist murals of Pagan: timeless vistas of the cosmos, photography by Joachim K Bautze

Bautze-Picron, Claudine

ISBN: 9789745240254, 9745240257

Buddhist paintings of Tun-huang in the National Museum, New Delhi

Lokesh, Chandra et al

ISBN: 9788192091235, 8192091236

The Tun-huang caves are the sparkle of Buddhist art over the centuries. Situated at the foot of the Mountain of Singing Sands, they are the brush of the Buddha, where an itinerant monk Yueh-ts'un watched the iridescent peaks in the sheen of blue satin, settled down to excavate the first cave in AD 344, and to paint its walls with colours brought by birds as the folk legend has it. Speechless wi...

A Buddhist paradise: the murals of Alchi, Western Himalayas, text by Pratapaditya Pal, photographs by Lionel Fournier

ISBN: 9783855600366, 3855600368

This book is the first major attempt to reproduce in sumptuous color plates the brilliant world of form and color created by unknown Kashmiri and Tibetan artists between the 11th and 13th centuries.

Buddhist rock carvings in the Swat valley

Sardar, Badshah (b.1964)