Numbers: their iconographic consideration in Buddhist and Hindu practices

Bunce, Fredrick W (b.1935)

ISBN: 9788124602010, 8124602018

The author perceives 'numerology' not as the arcane or occult science, but as an academic proposition concerned with the ethos of numbers and the genesis of their importance within the Hindu and Buddhist art, particularly architecture.

Mandalas of the Bon religion: Tritan Norbutse collection, Kathmandu, (in Tibetan), with a preface in English, Osaka, 200o

ISBN: 9789937624244, 993762424X

In this book, the renowned scholars of Bon studies have made efforts to present the importance of Bon Mandalas. It contains 132 Mandalas with their names and descriptions in Tibetan as well as in romanized Tibetan.

Origin and development of Buddhist images

Srivastava, Kamal Shankar

ISBN: 9788131302422, 8131302423

This book attempts to deal exhaustively the images of Bodhisattvas, Buddha as their origin, development and their iconograpic study. The various phases and development of symbolic, theriomorphic, anthropmorphic as well as divine icons of Gautama, the Buddha are described in this present work.

The origin of the Buddha image

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.

ISBN: 9788121502221, 8121502225

This book is a detailed study and analysis of the controversial problem. In the present monograph, with his usual acumen and deep understanding of the subject, Coomaraswamy has laid bare the facts which clearly show that the Buddha image was a product of the Indian mind. In this detailed excursus, he has discussed the problem not only with a view to prove that the Buddha image originated out of...

Pilgrimage and Buddhist art, ed. by Adriana Proser

ISBN: 9780300155662, 0300155662

The concept of Buddhist pilgrimage as it developed throughout Asia, becoming the impetus for new forms of art and visual culture, is the subject of this Asia Society exhibition, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, which brings together more than ninety objects from significant North American museum and private collections.

Sanatan and Buddhism

Sarkar, Radha Banerjee

ISBN: 9788193646403, 8193646401

The book highlights that the Indian culture is a composite culture and it is specially true in the case of Indian art.

Preah Bot: Buddhist painted scrolls in Cambodia

Roveda, Vittorio et al.

ISBN: 9789749863992, 9749863992

This important book, with a summary in Khmer is the first attempt to document the art and meaning of preah bot in Cambodian society at a time when the production of such cloths for religious use is gradually disappearing and being replaced by commercial production for tourists or art collectors.

Protecting wisdom: Tibetan book covers from the Maclean Collection, photography by John Bigelow Taylor

Brown, Kathryn H. Selig

ISBN: 9783791347561, 379134756X

Ruthless compassion: wrathful deities in early Indo-Tibetan esoteric Buddhist art

Linrothe, Rob

ISBN: 9781570624391, 1570624399

Sacred Tibet: imagination, magic and myth

Rawson, Philip

ISBN: 9780500810491, 0500810494

Sakyamuni's return journey to Lumbini (lumbiniyatra): a study of a popular theme in Newar Buddhist art and literature

Buhnemann, Gudrun

ISBN: 9789937294621, 9937294622

Sharanam Gachhami: an album of awakening, comp. and ed. by Kishore Thukral, foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama

ISBN: 9788176212229, 8176212229

The book is a collection of photographs shot by twenty photographers, both professionals and amateurs, including well known names such as Richard Gere, Steve McCurry, Raghu Rai, Deepti Naval and Ven. Matthieu Ricard. The photographs Buddhist ideals and principles and also on Buddhist heritage.

Splendours of Himachal heritage

Anand, Mulk Raj (ed.)

ISBN: 9788170173519, 8170173515

Contains articles on different aspects of Himalayan heritage from specialists, viz. Subhasini Aryan, O.P. Handa, O.C. Ohri etc.

Sri Lanka and the Kandy Esala Perahera: discovering the spirit of Buddha in the land of elephants, words and photographs by Michael Sarnacki

ISBN: 9780615573724, 061557372X

The legend of the Sacred Tooth Relic is steeped in ancient Buddhist thought and culture. Annually, during a ten-day period in July or August, the relic is venerated with a series of great processions. Each evening hundreds of drummers, dancers, torchbearers and elephants walk through the streets of Kandy in a grand sacred pegeant. This historic event is the Kandy Esala Perahera.

Sri Lankan Buddhist art Vol.II: Post-classical revival, colour photography, concept and design by Gamini Jayasinghe, text by D.B. Kappagoda

ISBN: 9789556713367, 9556713360

The temple paintings of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are some of Sri Lanka's greatest national art treasures. Executed by generations of unknown artists, they constitute a rich and distinctive Sri Lankan contribution to the art of Asia. Hundreds of Buddhist temples and shrines with brightly painted interiors still exist throughout the country.

Studies in early Buddhist architecture of India, 2nd edition

Sarkar, H

ISBN: 9788121505994, 8121505992

Studies in Hindu and Buddhist art

Mishra PK (b.1937) (ed.)

ISBN: 9788170173687, 817017368X

A collection of essays to comemorate the loving memory of Professor Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta, the book is a fitting tribute to the great savant

Stylistics of Buddhist art in India, 2 vols

Benisti, Mireille (1909-1993)

ISBN: 9788173052439, 8173052433

Vol.1: Text. Vol.2: Plates.;;;Contents: (i) A study of Stupas in ancient India. (ii) The ornamental Vedika. (iii) Stupas with five pillars. (iv) Apropos the Triratna. (v) Contribution to the study of the Indian Buddhist Stupa: the minor Stupas of Bodh-Gaya and Ratnagiri.

Stylistics of early Khmer art, 2 vols

Benisti, Mireille (1909-1993)

ISBN: 9788173052569, 8173052565

Vol.1: Text. Vol.2: Plates.;;;The present volume contains translations of Benisti's major publications dealing with Khmer art.

Summit of treasures: Buddhist cave art of Dazu, China

Howard, Angela Falco

ISBN: 9789745240070, 9745240079

This is the first English-language publication to reveal and explain the incredible artworks hidden in this remote site, dating from the Song dynasty and inspired by the profound tenets of Esoteric Buddhism. Using brilliant photographs and detailed line drawings, Professor Howard presents the caves in the didactic order intended by their creators, explaining all iconography and symbolism, and t...