Download or read book The East written by Christopher Tadgell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the Architecture in Context series, this second volume narrates the development of architecture across a huge swathe of the world, from the Indian subcontinent to the Japanese archipelago, over a period extending from prehistory to the arrival of Islam and its distinct traditions from the eleventh century onwards. Fantastically illustrated, with over 1,000 photographs and drawings, Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of India, China, Thailand and Japan as well as the spectacular architecture of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Korea, Myenmar, Bhutan and Tibet. As with the first volume – Antiquity – The East presents not only the buildings themselves, but the cultures and peoples that they are a part of. Unprecedented in its scope, this volume is a beautiful guide to the fascinating history of Eastern architecture.
Download or read book Rediscovering the Hindu Temple written by Vinayak Bharne and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...
Download or read book Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains written by Nachiket Chanchani and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage. Nachiket Chanchani’s innovative study explores scores of stone edifices and steles that were erected in this landscape. Through their forms, locations, interactions with the natural environment, and sociopolitical context, these lithic ensembles evoked legendary worlds, embedded historical memories in the topography, changed the mountain range’s appearance, and shifted its semiotic effect. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains also alters our understanding of the transmission of architectural knowledge and provides new evidence of how an enduring idea of India emerged in the subcontinent. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/mountain-temples-and-temple-mountains
Download or read book History and Culture of the Chamba State a Western Himalayan Kingdom written by Vishwa Chander Ohri and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the princely state of Chamba; papers presented at a seminar, organized by the Dept. of Languages & Culture, Himachal Pradesh.
Download or read book Temples of Madhya Pradesh written by Rahman Ali and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Present Work An Attempt Has Been Made To Study The Major Artistic Characteristics Of Extant Bhumija Temples Of Madhya Pradesh. The Architectural Features Have Been Compared With Those Of The Prescribed Textual Norms. Further The Impacts Of This Popular Art Tradition Of Malwa Over The Contemporary Art Of Neighbouring Regions Like Maharashtra And Rajasthan Etc. Have Also Been Discussed. It May Not Be Out Of Place To Mention That During The Survey Of Monuments Of Good Number Of Brahamanical Images Were Also Noticed Which Are Either Intact With The Original Monuments Or Shifted To Different Museums. To Bring A Few Of Them Into The Notice Of Scholars A Brief Inconographical Note Was Also Prepared Which Has Been Added With The Text As Second Part. It Will Definitely Help The Scholars To Understand The Development Of Plastic Art Traditions Under The Paramaras Who Were Basically The Original Patrons Of Raising Bhumija Temples In Malwa.
Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism written by Gavin Flood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideal resource for courses on Hinduism or world religions, this accessible volume spans the entire field of Hindu studies. It provides a forum for the best scholars in the world to make their views and research available to a wider audience. Comprehensively covers the textual traditions of Hinduism Features four coherent sections covering theoretical issues, textual traditions, science and philosophy, and Hindu society and politics Reflects the trend away from essentialist understandings of Hinduism towards tradition and regional-specific studies Includes material on Hindu folk religions and stresses the importance of region in analyzing Hinduism Ideal for use on university courses.
Download or read book The Temples in Kumbh riy written by Madhusudan A. Dhaky and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kumbhariya (Known Ancient As Arasaha Or Arasankara ), Now A Non-Descript Hamlet, Situated About A Mile And A Half To The Southeast Of The Famous Holy Tirtha-Town Ambaji (Banaskantha District, Gujarat, India) And About 35 Kms Southeast Of Mt. Abu Was An Important Jaina Site In High Medieval Times. Home To Five Exquisite Jaina Temples And A Sivaita Fane, These Marble Buildings Sacred To The Faithful, Were Built During Thesolanki Period Between The 11Th And Late-13Th Centuries A.D. This Work Also Demonstrates That The Spectacular Interiors Of The Four Jaina Temples At Kumnhariya Are More Ancient Than Those In The Delvada Temples And The Variety And Richness If The Columns And The Celling Equal Or Are On Par With The Delvada Temples On Mt. Abu
Download or read book The Dream Assembly written by Manuja Bābu Miśra and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dak i a Kosala written by Natasja Bosma and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the early development of Śaivism in ancient Dakṣiṇa Kosala, the region that roughly corresponds to the modern state of Chhattisgarh, plus the districts of Sambalpur, Balangir and Kalahandi of Odhisha (formerly Orissa). At the end of the sixth and the beginning of the seventh century, this region was under the control of the Pāṇḍava king Śivagupta alias ‘Bālārjuna’ hailing from Śrīpura (the modern village of Sirpur), who was a great patron of religion. Epigraphical evidence, supported by archaeological remains, has shown that by the time of Śivagupta’s reign, which lasted for at least fifty-seven years, Dakṣiṇa Kosala was already a rich center of early Śaivism. In the context of this setting the following research questions were formulated: what circumstances fostered the rise and development of Śaivism in this area, and did the Skandapurāṇa, an important and contemporaneous religious scripture, play any role in that development? An answer to these questions would not only shed light on the religious processes at work in Dakṣiṇa Kosala, but would also touch upon the interplay of political, social, economic and geographical factors.
Download or read book India and South East Asia written by Christopher Tadgell and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume explores the impact of religion and cosmology on building forms in Java, Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia. Stupendous monuments such as Angkor Wat in Cambodia are covered. 110 illustrations, 60 in color.
Download or read book Temples in Classical Art and Architecture of Eastern India written by Braja Kishor Padhi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the evolutions of art architecture on various temples of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islamic religions. It contains 14 chapters.
Download or read book Temples in India written by Swarajya Prakash Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architectural Heritage of Himachal Pradesh written by Laxman S. Thakur and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent written by Christopher Tadgell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 1143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to the tracing of continuity across sectarian divides, Christopher Tadgell’s History of Architecture in India (1989) was the first modern monograph to draw together in one volume all the strands of India’s pre-colonial architectural history – from the Vedic and Native traditions of early India, through Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic and secular architecture. This comprehensive revision, Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent: From the Mauryas to the Mughals, expands the structure to acknowledge the great advance in scholarship across this extremely complex subject over the last three decades. An understanding of Indian history and religion is the basis for understanding the complex pattern of relationships in the evolution of architecture in the subcontinent. Therefore, background material covers major invasions, migrations, dynastic conflicts and cultural and commercial connections, the main religious developments and their significance and repercussions, and external architectural precedents. While avoiding the usual division of the subject into ‘Buddhist and Hindu’ and ‘Islamic’ parts in order to trace continuity, the importance of religion, symbolism and myth to the development of characteristic Indian architectural forms in all their richness and complexity is fully explained in this fully illustrated account of the subcontinent’s architecture.
Download or read book Sons of Sarasvati written by and published by Global Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents rare biographies of traditional Indian scholars during the nineteenth century, a critical moment of transition for the Indian intellectual tradition. Traditional Indian pāṇḍitya (scholarship) has a long and distinguished history but is now practically extinct. Its decline is remarkably recent—traditional pāṇḍitya flourished as recently as 150 years ago. The decline is also paradoxical, having occurred precipitously following a broad and remarkable flowering of the tradition between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The important questions this decline poses are the subject of much ongoing work. The intellectual history of the period is still under construction, and the present book represents a major contribution to the project. A notable impediment has been the lack of critical biographies of significant thinkers in this tradition. The importance of personal and social context for reconstructing intellectual histories is widely understood. In the classical Indian intellectual tradition, however, authors systematically exclude such context, making intellectual biography something of a rarity—very rare in English and sparse even in the regional languages. This book contains translations from the original Kannaḍa of the biographies of Garaḷapurī Śāstri, Śrīkaṇṭha Śāstri, and Kuṇigala Rāmaśāstri of nineteenth-century Mysore, all representing the highest echelons of traditional pāṇḍitya at this critical period of transition. Their fields are literature, grammar, and logic, respectively. The biographies focus on the personal lives of these scholars and their many contexts. These biographies are almost contemporaneous accounts, reflecting firsthand knowledge. The translations are accompanied by copious footnotes as well as appendices drawn from the relevant primary sources. Chinya V. Ravishankar is Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education at the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside.
Download or read book The Structural Temples of Gujarat Upto 1600 A D written by Kantilal F. Sompura and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
