Treasures from Chinese Buddhist temples: the boundless wisdom of Buddhism

Hsu, James

ISBN: 9789868437968, 9868437962

Treasures of Tibetan art collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art

Lipton, Barbara et al.

ISBN: 9780195097146, 0195097149

A treasury of drawings of Buddhas, deities and Lamas of Tibet: the Nyingma icons, introd. and tr. by Keith Dowman, foreword by Dudjom Rimpoche, drawing by Gomchan Oleshe, rev. a...

ISBN: 9788187138730, 8187138734

...enl. edition.

The twelve deeds of the Buddha: a painting by Korchak Tulku Kun-ga Gyeltsen based on the Derge Parkhang Xylographs, comp. by Matthew Akester

ISBN: 9789993353294, 9993353299

Two Lamaistic Pantheons, 2 vols., ed. with introd. and indexes by Walter Eugene Clark from masterials collected by the Baron Stael Holstein,

ISBN: 9788121508810, 8121508819

The Pao-Hsiang Lou Pantheon, reproduced here for the first time in the western world, consists of 766 bronze sculptures on pedestals from the forbidden city in Peiping, most of them inscribed with the names of divinities or high personages. The second pantheon represented in this volume is the Chu Fo P'u-sa Sheng Hsiang Tsan contains 360 woodblock illustrations accompanied by 360 eulogies in Ch...

Unfolding a mandala: the Buddhist cave temples at Ellora

Malandra, Geri H

ISBN: 9788170305170, 8170305179

Contents: (i) Tirtha and Mandala: the place, the people, the Gods. (ii) Buddhist caves of the first period: the beginning of the Mandala. (iii) Caves of the middle period: the Mandala grows. (iv) The late Buddhist caves: the Mandala unfolded. (v) A centre on the periphery: Ellora's place in Buddhist art.

The way of the Buddha: an exhibition on Buddhist art from the cocollection of the Indian museum

Contents: (i) The way of the Buddha (ii) Catalogue;

Cultural interflow between India and Japan

Chandra, Lokesh

ISBN: 9788177421361, 8177421360

This book chronicles the role of Buddhism in the formation of the state, literature, art, and beginnings of technology in Japan from the sixth century down to our times. From the name of the country as Nippon arising out of the golden light of the rising sun in the Suvarnabhasottama-sutra;down to the Indic sequence of the kana syllabary, or the kanji of the sutras becoming the terminology of th...

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...

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

Shrestha, Romio et al

ISBN: 9787552701432, 7552701439

Xizang minjian Yishu Congshu: Xiang Xiong murals

Hua, Xiang Xiong Bi

ISBN: 9787536660199, 7536660197

In Chinese and English.

Mudras in Japan: symbolic hand-postures in Japanese Mantrayana or the esoteric buddhism of the Shingon denomination

Chandra, Lokesh et al.

ISBN: 9788194538769, 8194538769

This book is a collection of symbolic hand postures used in the rituals of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism of the Shingon denomination.

The Buddha image: its origin and development, 2nd edition

Krishna, Y et al

ISBN: 9788121505659, 8121505658

This is a revised edition of the book, first published in 1995. It deals with crucial though controversial questions in Buddhist art: the origin of the Buddha image-its transformation from aniconism to anthropomorphism-and the iconography of the Buddha images.

The art of ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu and Jain

Huntington, Susan L

ISBN: 9788120836174, 8120836170

This book works and monuments included in this volume have been selected not only for their artistic merit but also in order to both provide general coverage and include transitional works that furnish the key to an all encompassing view of the art.

The Buddhist art of Nagarjunakonda

Stone, Elizabeth Rosen

ISBN: 9788120808287, 8120808282

Stupa and its technology: a Tibeto-Buddhist perspective, foreword by M.C. Joshi

Dorjee, Pema (b.1957)

ISBN: 9788120813014, 8120813014

The present study shows how Tibet became a treasure house of Buddhist culture and literature-- highlighting important texts dealing with stupa's architecture. Various ritual activities associated with the construction of the stupa are described along with the eight fundamental types of the Tibeto-Buddhist stupas and their main structural components.

When west met east: Gandharan art revisited, 2 vols.

Bopearachchi, Osmund

ISBN: 9788194496243, 8194496241

This book is based on hitherto unpublished or partly published sculptures and artefacts from Gandhara and Greater Gandhara dispersed in public and private collections across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Its subject is a form of figurative sculpture that emergedin the Gandharan region between the second and fifth centuries CE and reflects regional cross cultural elements between Buddhism...

The Nepalese caitya: 1500 years of Buddhist votive architecture in the Kathmandu Valley with drawings by Bijay Basukala and an essay by David Gellner

Gutschow, Niels

ISBN: 9789937733311, 9937733316

This volume is a compilation of architectural evidence. The text reveals a profound understanding of the cultural context of the caityas, their forms and sculptural decoration. It contains hundreds of beautifully executed measured drawings and finely printed photographs of never, or hardly ever studied monuments in the Kathmandu Valley.

Himalayan art in 108 objects,

ISBN: 9781785514524, 1785514520

In this beautifully illustrated volume, the fascinating story of Himalayan art is illuminated through a selection of significant objects from the Neolithic era to today. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, textiles, architectural structures, and more serve as a guide to the historical traditions, rituals, social practices, and art forms from Tibetan, Indian, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Mongolian, and Chi...

The origin of the Buddha image

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.

ISBN: 9788119139644, 811913964X

The image of Buddha in Gandhara style depicted in the padmasana pose, is one of the most popular images of the world. This image is connected with the symbol of Buddhism apart from the Ashoka Chakra. Throughout ancient India, Buddha's image gained popularity in the formation of Mahayana Buddhism. The major question that comes forth is how this art came into being during ancient times. This smal...