The Buddhist cave paintings of Bagh

Pande, Anupa

ISBN: 9788173052187, 8173052182

The Buddhist cave paintings at Bagh are renowned for their heritage of art. However, unlike Ajanta, they have not received adequate scholarly attention so far. The work has essayed the task of identifying the paintings in detail, thus it has interpreted fully the meaning of the main panel of paintings which had once adorned the verandah of cave 4 and which has long puzzled art historians.

Buddhist caves of western India: forms and patronage

Alone, Y.S.

ISBN: 9788174791825, 8174791825

The present work is an attempt to a broader concern with the visuality and its pattern of architectural and decorative designs such as how a particular pattern of articulation was evolved? How did the artisans work in the society with the available tradition/skill and what was the role and politics of patronage. The book is also an attempt to see Ajanta and western Deccan caves very differently...

Buddhist deities of Nepal: iconography in two sketchbooks

Buhnemann, Gudrun

ISBN: 9789993376972, 9993376973

Buddhist legends, 3 parts, transl. from the original Pali text of the Dhammapada comm. by Eugene Watson Burlingame, ed. by Charles Rockwell Lanman

ISBN: 9788120820739, 8120820738

Part 1: Introduction, synopses, translation of books 1 and 2, with a photogravure of a palm-leaf manuscript. ISBN- 8120820703.;Part 2: Translation of books 3 to 12. ISBN- 8120820711.;Part 3: Translation of books 13 to 26. ISBN- 812082072x.

Buddhist legends, translated from the original Pali text of the Dhammapada comm., 3 parts

Burlingame, Eugene Watson

ISBN: 9788121508797, 8121508797

Part 1: Introduction, synopses; translation of books 1 and 2; with a photograph of a palm-leaf manuscript. Part 2: Translation of books 3 to 12. Part 3: Translation of books 13 to 26.;

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.

The Buddhist monastery: a cross-cultural survey, ed. by Pierre Pichard et al

ISBN: 9786162150685, 6162150682

This book is the result of an international research program conducted by the Bangkok branch of the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient between 1997 and 2003. This is the only comprehensive study presenting a clear geographical and historical overview of Buddhist monasteries throughout Asia, especially Southeast Asia, and particularly in Thailand. Designed to provide a precise description of the a...

Early Himalayan art

Heller, Amy

ISBN: 9788189497125, 818949712X

The Ashmolean Museum has an important collection of Buddhist metal sculptures and other works of religious art from the Himalayan regions of Tibet and Nepal. There richly diverse works of early Himalayan art are fully catalogued and illustrated, in many cases for the first time, in this book by Amy Heller.

The evolution of Indian stupa architecture in East Asia

Stratton, Eric D

ISBN: 9788179360064, 8179360067

Foundations of oriental art and symbolism: introduction to Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist Art, ed. by Michael Oren Fitzgerald, foreword by Brian Keeble

Burckhardt, Titus

ISBN: 9788178223728, 8178223724

It is an edited collection of author's most important articles on Oriental art and symbolism, with page after page of illustrations from the traditional Oriental civilizations. These illustrations illuminate his insightful descriptions and explanations, providing the reader with a small taste of the beauty that permeated the traditional Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist worlds-a beauty that has in lar...

Along the Buddhist path: the meditator's companion to the sacred sites in India and Nepal

Goldberg, Kory et al.

ISBN: 9788178224718, 8178224712

This book is an extraordinarily comprehensive and true companion and guide for those people, who are inspired by the Buddha's life and teaching, and so wish to meditate, pray and pay homage in these places (p.xiii). These are the people who also want to directly relate themselves to everything the Buddha has been associated with whatever his followers have done to preserve his legacy spared thr...

Glimpses of Buddhist legacy

Mohanty, Bimalendu

ISBN: 9788188043507, 8188043508

The book contains graphic accounts of essential information on Buddhist monuments, relics and vestiges found at different places in India in general and those in Orissa in particular.

Gods of Angkor: bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia, with essays by Ian C Glover, John Guy, Paul Jett, and Hiram Woodward

Cort, Louise Allison et al (ed.)

ISBN: 9789749511930, 974951193X

A catalogue of a remarkable group of seven bronze figures which were unearthed in Kampong Cham province, Cambodia, in 2006. These sixth and seventh-century Buddhist sculptures, two of which were Chinese, ultimately were acquired by the National Museum of Cambodia.

The heritage of Buddhist Pala art

Sharma, Sudhakar

ISBN: 9788173052392, 8173052395

The present book attempts to present a sketch of Buddha's life as well as well-known and important gods and goddess as represented in art of eastern India of which the Pala art was an important product.

The heritage of Nalanda

Mani, C (b.1923) (ed.)

ISBN: 9788173053306, 8173053308

The book, an outcome of the research papers presented in the International Conference on `The Heritage of Nalanda' held at Nalanda (February 12 to 14, 2006), is a landmark in the field of scholarship. In its six parts with its critical delineation, has a veritable coverage as: (i) History. (ii) Art and Archaeology, (iii) Early Medieval Scholasticism: Logic, Philosophy and Esoterism, (iv) Litera...

Hindu and Buddhist monuments and remains in South-East Asia

Khanna, Amar Nath (b.1936)

ISBN: 9788173053481, 8173053480

Alchi: Ladakh's hidden Buddhist sanctuary, 2 vols.

Goepper, Roger et al.

ISBN: 9781932476972, 1932476970

Vol.1: The Choskhor; Vol.2: The Sumtsek, with contributions by Holger Neuwirth, Carmen Auer, Rob Linrothe and Nils Martin. The monastic complex of Alchi is undoubtedly one of the most important and fascinating monuments preserved in the Himalayas. With its earliest monuments dating from the late twelfth to the mid-thirteenth centuries, it provides unique insight into the Buddhist culture flouri...

The iconography of Avalokitesvara in mainland south-east Asia, foreword by Lalit M. Gujral

Chutiwongs, Nandana

ISBN: 9788173052354, 8173052352

The book offers a deep insight into the religious life of ancient southeast Asia, which had provided the backdrop to the veneration of Avalokitesvara, the Buddhist personification of compassion.

Iconography of Buddhist and Brahmanical sculptures in the Dacca Museum, Dacca, 1929

Bhattasali, Nalini Kanta

ISBN: 9788173052132, 8173052131

The present work is practically an iconographical survey of East Bengal-- of what was anciently known as Vanga and Samatata. The nucleus of the series described is of course the collection in the Dacca Museum obtained mostly from places within the limits of these two ancient and far-famed seats of civilization and culture.

Iconography of the Derge Kanjur and Tanjur, foreword by Lokesh Chandra, New Delhi, 1978

Kolmas, Josef

ISBN: 9788179360019, 8179360016

The author presents in this volume an impressive array of xylographed sketches of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in their serenity, gods and goddesses in their charm, teachers and historic personages who appear in the 316 volumes of the Tibetan canon xylographed at Derge.