Buddhist rock-cut monasteries of the Western Ghats, photography by Surendra Kumar

Michell, George et al.

ISBN: 9789386867049, 9386867044

This guidebook focuses on the rock-cut Buddhist monasteries near Nashik and Junnar, and at Karla, Bhaja, Bedsa, Kondane and Kanheri, all in western Maharashtra. These magnificent shrines and dwellings, known as chaityas and viharas, were cut into the basalt cliffs of the Western Ghats more than 2,000 years ago.

Buddhist sculptural art of the lower Krishna valley

Rao, Vinay Kumar

ISBN: 9788173201011, 8173201013

This book intends to present most important Buddhist narratives of lower Krishna region at one place. It also intends to make a comparative study of Buddhist narratives and their repetitive presentations at various Buddhist sites.

Buddhist shrines in India

Ahir, D.C.

ISBN: 9789380852676, 9380852673

Buddhist shrines of the World, ed. by Piya Chakravarty

George, Anna

ISBN: 9788178093734, 8178093731

This book is not only a pictorial depiction of the notable Buddhist sites of the world, but also an integrated resource for the study of the architectural diversity of Buddhist structures; all the way from India and Nepal where Buddhism was born and propagated, to the deserts of Afghanistan or the cliffs of the Shanxi province of China, all laboriously and exquisitely carved by monk artists and...

Buddhist sites in Odisha & Andhra Pradesh: travel guide, ed. by Swati Mitra

ISBN: 9789380262765, 9380262760

Buddhist stupas in Asia: the shape of perfection

Cummings, Joe

ISBN: 9781864501209, 1864501200

Burmese Buddhist murals, Vol.1: Epigraphic corpus of the Powin Taung caves

Munier, Christophe et al.

ISBN: 9789744801272, 9744801271

This book is a systematic study of a preeminent site in the artistic and cultural heritage of South East Asia. With over 500 caves, Powin Taung has for centuries attracted pilgrims and today houses eleven monasteries providing a home for about a hundred monks, novices and nuns. The caves, dug into a sandstone formation, are decorated with murals of the 28 Buddhas, of the Life of Gotama (the his...

Chan heart, chan art

Yun, Master Hsing

ISBN: 9789382017158, 9382017151

Chinese Tangka: Oral histories of Chinese folk arts and crafts, narrated by Xihedao, tr. by Li Yanhua, compiled by Wang Wenzhang

ISBN: 9781921678332, 192167833X

The circle of bliss

Huntington, John C et al.

ISBN: 9781932476019, 1932476016

The little luminous boy: the oral tradition from the land of Zhangzhung depicted on two Tibetan paintings

Karmay, Samten G.

ISBN: 9789937924542, 9937924545

Collection of gilt bronze Buddha statues, Chief ed. Wang Jiapeng, Chief Designer Qu Quansheng, (Chinese and English)

ISBN: 9787513401272, 7513401276

The work is based on the selection among Mr. Li Wei's collection of Tibetan gilt bronze Buddha statues.

Comprehensive illustrated catalogue of Chinese Buddhist statues in overseas collection, 8 vols., (description in English & Chinese)

ISBN: 9787119040585, 7119040588

A Concise history of Buddhist art in SIAM

May, Reginald Le

Conservation of Buddhist monuments in Central India

Agrawal, R.C.

ISBN: 9789383221059, 9383221054

The present study deals with the survey, excavations and conservation of sites discovered by General Taylor, Alexander Cunningham and John Marshall etc.

Contemporizing Buddha, paintings by Arpana Caur

Shukla, Rajesh Kumar

ISBN: 9788188043460, 818804346X

Deities of Tibetan Buddhism: the Zurich paintings of the icons worthwhile to see, tr. by Martin Willson, intro. by Martin Brauen, drawings by Robert Beer, photos by Peter Nebel

Willson, Martin (ed.)

ISBN: 9780861710980, 0861710983

This book is an encyclopedia of Buddhist icons based on the Rinjung Gyatsa, the Narthang Gyatsa, and the Vajravali. Full-color illus. of over five hundred Tibetan Buddhist deities are reproduced here from a set of hand-painted woodblock prints created in the early nineteenth century. Housed in the ethnographic museum of the University of Zurich, this rare collecton is presented along with an ex...

Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, Vol. 2: Amoghavikramin--Bzod.par.Smra.ba.can

Lokesh Chandra

ISBN: 9788177420272, 8177420275

Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, Vol. 3: Cagan Acala--Dhupa

Lokesh Chandra

ISBN: 9788177420418, 8177420410

Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, Vol. 4: Dhyana-paramita-Gzuns.las.byun.bahi lha.mo Nor.rgyun.ma

Lokesh Chandra

ISBN: 9788177420425, 8177420429