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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 remains from Haryana

Handa, Devendra (b.1936)

ISBN: 9788175741539, 8175741538

The present work is based on the first-hand study of the Buddhist remains, mostly lying unnoticed, at various places and in museums and private collections.

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 sculptures in Srilanka

Schroeder, Ulrich Von

ISBN: 9789627049050, 9627049050

Buddhist sites and shrines in India: history, art and architecture

Ahir, DC (b.1928)

ISBN: 9788170307747, 8170307740

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...

The casting of religion: a special exhibition of Peng Kai-dong's donation, ed. by Christine Ho, (Chinese and English)

ISBN: 9789575624682, 9575624688

The collection of Peng Kai-dong of Buddhist art is world-renowned. The scope of his collection has been broadly inclusive beside covering the East Asian Countries of China, Japan and Korea, also included are the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Kashmir, and Tibet, and the Southeast countries of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia - and presents a comprehensive vision of Asia...

Central Asian art: new revelations from Xinjiang

Banerjee, P

ISBN: 9788185704241, 8185704244

The author, a well known exponent of Buddhist art, has identified in this volume about thirty-five objects from Xinjiang and Dunhuang and his conclusions are published in this volume.

Chinese Buddhist sculpture under the Liao: free standing works in Situ and selected examples from public collections, ed. by Sushama Lohia

Gridley, Marilyn Leidig

ISBN: 9788185689043, 8185689040

Chinese folk art: Thangka, compl. by Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Chinese text tr. by Zhang Yixi

ISBN: 9787532265763, 7532265765

Contents: (1) Chinese folk art Thangka ;(2) Religious Thangka ;(3) Thangka of other themes;(4) Artistic value of Thangka;;;;

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

ISBN: 9781921678332, 192167833X

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.

The cultural monuments of Tibet: the central regions, 2 vols.

Henss, Michael

ISBN: 9783791351582, 3791351583

This book presents an extensive documentation on the major historical sites and religious and secular buildings, images and paintings, ritual objects and other temple furnishing, archaeological sites and objects, petroglyphs and stone inscriptions from around the 7th century to the 20th in Central and Southern Tibet. The only work of its kind, this comprehensive and systematic handbook examines...

Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, 15 vols. (complete set)

Lokesh Chandra

ISBN: 9788186471937, 8186471936

The dictionary of Buddhist Iconography is an endeavour of half a centruy to identify, classify, describe and delineate the bewildering variation in Buddhist icons, ever since the representation of the Buddha on a coin of the Kushan Emperor Kaniska. It is a continuation of the vast iconic materials and research that the author's father Prof. RaghuVira had conducted since the 1930s. Thousands of ...