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Indian architecture: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain, text and photographs by Surendra Sahai

Indian architecture: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain, text and photographs by Surendra Sahai


ISBN: 9788172341299, 8172341296

The present book deals with the architecture of the indian subcontinent beginning from the Mauryan period in the third century BCE.

Indian art and aesthetics: endeavours in interpretation

Indian art and aesthetics: endeavours in interpretation


ISBN: 9788173052637, 8173052638

The book presents an analysis and fresh interpretations on different aspects of Indian art including Buddhist and Jaina iconography, aesthetics and art appreciation and painting. Also, contains discussions on the Indian jade-carving, rare yogini, Visvarupa and Vishnu images.

The Indian Buddhist iconography, mainly based on the Sadhanamala and other cognate tantric texts of rituals

The Indian Buddhist iconography, mainly based on the Sadhanamala and other cognate tantric texts of rituals

Bhattacharyya, Benoytosh

ISBN: 9788173053139, 8173053138

This volume is an attempt to present a comprehensive work on Buddhist iconography of India, and is mainly based on Sanskrit text prepared from seven recensions of the Sadhanamala alias Saddhanasauccaya.

Indian Buddhist literature and Chinese moral books: a comparative analysis

Indian Buddhist literature and Chinese moral books: a comparative analysis

Der-huey, Lee

ISBN: 9788186700532, 8186700536

This book, based on the author's Ph. D. thesis offers a serious look at the exploration of ancient Indian literature-- Buddhism figurative literature in particular.

Indonesia: political history and Hindu and Buddhist cultural influences, 2 vols

Indonesia: political history and Hindu and Buddhist cultural influences, 2 vols

Hazra, Kanai Lal (b.1932)

ISBN: 9788186921371, 8186921370

Contents: (i) Political history of Indonesia. (ii) East Timor. (iii) Religious history of Indonesia: rise and growth of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. (iv) Indonesia's literature: (a) The old-Javanese literature. (b) The middle-Javanese literature. (v) Art, architecture and sculpture of Indonesia.

An introduction to Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet

An introduction to Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet

Ahmad, Zahiruddin

ISBN: 9788177420692, 8177420690

This book is an in-depth study of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet. The concentration is on ontology/epistemology and, to a somewhat lesser extent, soteriology. It is based on the writings of the Buddhist philosophers themselves, from the unknown authors of the Pali `Abhidhamma' books down to the present Dalai Lama of Tibet. It takes into consideration the work of many twentieth century s...

The Kanaganahalli stupa: an analysis of the 60 massive slabs covering the dome

The Kanaganahalli stupa: an analysis of the 60 massive slabs covering the dome

Zin, Monika

ISBN: 9788173055898, 8173055890

The book delivers a profound analysis of the 60 monumental slabs which covered the dome of the as yet relatively unknown stupa at Kanaganahalli (Karnataka), one of the greatest discoveries of the Archaeological Survey of India in the 20th century. The study presents a stylistic examination of the reliefs and tentatively determines their original sequence. Using the Prakrit inscriptions on the s...

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

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


ISBN: 9789392510021, 9392510020

Vol.1: Introduction, synopses, translation of books 1 and 2, with a photogravure of a palm-leaf manuscript. ISBN: 9789392510434; Vol.2: Translation of books 3 to 12. ISBN: 9789392510519; Vol.3: Translation of books 13 to 26. ISBN: 9789392510595. The Dhammapada commentary is one of the best known Pali commentaries written on the stanzas of the Dhammapada, a Buddhist canonical text which for its ...

The life of the Buddha: Buddhist and Saiva iconography and visual narratives in artists' sketchbooks from Nepal, with transliterations and tr. from the Newari by Kashinath Tamot

The life of the Buddha: Buddhist and Saiva iconography and visual narratives in artists' sketchbooks from Nepal, with transliterations and tr. from the Newari by Kashinath Tamot

Buhnemann, Gudrun

ISBN: 9789937553049, 9937553040

This book describes, analyses and reproduces line drawings from two manuscripts and a related section from a third manuscript. The line drawings depict Hindu/Saiva and Buddhist deities and themes, but the Buddhist material is predominant, as one would expect in artists' sketchbooks from Patan.

Masterpieces of traditional Indian architecture, 2nd edition

Masterpieces of traditional Indian architecture, 2nd edition

Grover, Satish

ISBN: 9788174362933, 8174362932

This book explains how different cultures, religions and people have contributed in the making of distinctive styles. These have created stupendous architectural marvels: from the towering minars of Islamic architecture to the exquiste cave architecture of the Buddhists, from the dazzling Dilwara temple to the glorious Sun temple.

Meditations: yogas, gods, religions, foreword by David Frawley

Meditations: yogas, gods, religions, foreword by David Frawley

Ram Swarup (1920-1998)

ISBN: 9788185990644, 8185990646

The exploration of consciousness is an ancient and unique specialization of Hindu spirituality which sees consciousness as the very ground and being of the entire universe. Consciousness is the key word for the Hindu mind and meditation is the main methodology to develop it. There is a new interest in spirituality today, evidenced by the popularity of Yoga and meditation worldwide but it appear...

Memory as history: the legacy of Alexander in Asia

Memory as history: the legacy of Alexander in Asia

Ray, Himanshu Prabha (ed.)

ISBN: 9788173053252, 8173053251

Contents: Introduction. (i) `Wild Follies and Ostentatious Displays': reflections on Alexander the great in India the question of collective memory by Stephen Garton. Part I: The Evolution of the Legend. (ii) Alexander's historians and the Alexander romance: a comparative study by Ioannis Xydopoulos. (iii) Alexander's mythic journey into India by Alastair J.L. Blanshard. (iv) Alexander and the ...

A millennium of Buddhist logic, Vol.1

A millennium of Buddhist logic, Vol.1

Wayman, Alex

ISBN: 9788120816466, 8120816463

This first volume is in two parts: Part I (introductory) has Asanga's rules of debate, Dharmakirti's Nyayabindu with Kamalasila's commentary, and Santipa's treatise on 'inner pervation. Part II, devoted to the Dignaga-Dharmakirti system, has five sets of eleven verses, then a study of Bu-Ston's commentary on Dharmakirti's Pramanaviniscaya, and finally Tsong-kha-pa's Mun sel on the seven books o...

Mudras in Japan

Mudras in Japan

Lokesh Chandra et al.

ISBN: 9788179360002, 8179360008

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

Buddhist archaeological monuments of Lahaul Valley

Buddhist archaeological monuments of Lahaul Valley

Dorje Chhering

ISBN: 9789386463487, 9386463482

Lahaul Valley, situated amid the high and barren Himalayan mountain ranges, remains secluded and peaceful, and the inhabitants, having survived in the face of a harsh environment, have developed and given protection to their unique cultural heritage.

Pilgrim shrines of India: mythology, archaeology, history and art, foreword by M.C. Joshi

Pilgrim shrines of India: mythology, archaeology, history and art, foreword by M.C. Joshi

Khanna, Amar Nath (b.1936)

ISBN: 9788173052385, 8173052387

Contain an account of eighty pilgrim shrines scattered throughout India, as well as in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The survey of Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Christian and Sufi pilgrim shrines in India, their mythology, archaeology, history and art and the listing of pilgrim shrines in neighbouring countries vouchsafes an intimate glimpse into the glorious cultural heritage of the I...

Preah Bot: Buddhist painted scrolls in Cambodia

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.

Sacred art in East and West: its principles and methods, tr. by Lord Northbourne

Sacred art in East and West: its principles and methods, tr. by Lord Northbourne

Burckhardt, Titus

ISBN: 9788186569924, 8186569928

This work covers Hindu, Christian, Islamic, Buddhist and Far-Eastern sacred art, conveying the distinctive qualities characteristic of each, while also emphasizing there unity of principle.

Sacred Books of the East, 50 vols., ed. by F.Max-Muller and H. Oldenberg

Sacred Books of the East, 50 vols., ed. by F.Max-Muller and H. Oldenberg


ISBN: 9788120801011, 8120801016

These volumes include the translation of all the most important works seven non-Christian religions, i.e., Buddhist, Chinese, Islam, Jainism, Parsis and Vedic-Brahmanic system that have exercised a profound influence on the civilization of the continent of Asia.;;Vol.1 & 15: The Upanishads, 2 parts.;Vol.2 & 14: The sacred laws of the Aryas as taught in the schools of Apastamba, Gautama, Vasisth...

Sanskrit in China and Japan

Sanskrit in China and Japan

Chaudhuri, Saroj Kumar

ISBN: 9788177421101, 8177421107

This book covers the great academic exchange that took place between Indian monks and Chinese intellectuals during the first millennium of the Christian era. Information on Sanskrit linguistics transmitted by Indian monks helped Chinese intellectuals to evolve a phonetic system to read their pictographic script. The author taught Japanese language in the School of Foreign Languages, Ministry of...

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