Download or read book Imaging Wisdom written by Jacob N Kinnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-06-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the history of religions and Buddhist studies fields by focussing on what is a far too frequently ignored aspect of religious experience: visual images.

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Download or read book The Art of Eastern India written by Frederick M. Asher and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Buddhist Vi u written by John Clifford Holt and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Holt's groundbreaking study examines the assimilation, transformation, and subordination of the Hindu deity Visnu within the contexts of Sri Lankan history and Sinhala Buddhist religious culture. Holt argues that political agendas and social forces, as much as doctrinal concerns, have shaped the shifting patterns of the veneration of Visnu in Sri Lanka. Holt begins with a comparative look at the assimilation of the Buddha in Hinduism. He then explores the role and rationale of medieval Sinhala kings in assimilating Visnu into Sinhala Buddhism. Offering analyses of texts, many of which have never before been translated into English, Holt considers the development of Visnu in Buddhist literature and the changing practices of deity veneration. Shifting to the present, Holt describes the efforts of contemporary Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka to discourage the veneration of Visnu, suggesting that many are motivated by a reactionary fear that their culture and society will soon be overrun by the influences and practices of Hindus, Muslims, and Christians.

Download or read book THE ART OF INDIAN HISTORY written by Aditya Vats and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-25 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authority account of the major political economics social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian continent.

Download or read book The Early Iconography of Avalokite vara written by Gérard Fussman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "La première partie de ce livre, par G. Fussman, lie l'étude de deux statues de la collection Pritzker à deux évolutions majeures du bouddhisme dans les deux premiers siècles de notre ère : la création de l'image anthropomorphique du Buddha et les débuts du mahàyâna, qui entraînèrent la création d'images de nouveaux bodhisattva-s. Elle examine en particulier les tâtonnements qui ont précédé la création de l'image standard d'Avalokiteivara. L'étude de tout changement supposant l'existence d'une chronologie relative et absolue, cette première partie traite de la date de l'apparition de l'image humaine du Buddha au Gandhâra et revoit la chronologie de l'art bouddhique de Mathurâ en refusant la théorie des "centaines omises". En seconde partie sont réimprimés deux articles d'A.M. Quagliotti réfutant l'idée que les "bodhisattva-s pensifs" soient tous des Avalokitevara. Enfin un court chapitre est consacré à l'analyse d'une stèle récemment découverte à Mes-e Aynak (Afghanistan). Elle confirme les conclusions précédemment atteintes par A.M. Quagliotti et G. Schopen."--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Universal Gateway of Enlightenment written by Jean Prieur Du Plessis and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus did not lie, as the Church allege, when he said he would return within a particular time frame. He did return; on time, and in the East, where the Gospels said he would. Two billion easterners and 1st century Sanskrit literature confirm this. Based on extensive research, this book is presented as a very readable, endearing, historical novel.

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 13 Art in Tibet written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume discuss issues related to Tibetan art from the 7th the 20th century, dealing with relevant religious and historical sources, religious painting and iconography, medical iconography, painting materials and schools, metalwork, ritual objects, photographic records, artists.

Download or read book The Circle of Bliss written by John C. Huntington and published by Serindia Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition co-organized by the Columbus Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this hefty, oversize (10x13 catalogue features approximately 160 powerful masterpieces of Indian, Nepalese, Tibetan, Chinese, and Mongolian art produced over the pa

Download or read book Buddhist Art in India written by Albert Grünwedel and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Buddhist World written by John Powers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buddhist World joins a series of books on the world’s great religions and cultures, offering a lively and up-to-date survey of Buddhist studies for students and scholars alike. It explores regional varieties of Buddhism and core topics including buddha-nature, ritual, and pilgrimage. In addition to historical and geo-political views of Buddhism, the volume features thematic chapters on philosophical concepts such as ethics, as well as social constructs and categories such as community and family. The book also addresses lived Buddhism in its many forms, examining the ways in which modernity is reshaping traditional structures, ancient doctrines, and cosmological beliefs.

Download or read book Buddha in the Crown written by John Clifford Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical, anthropological, and philosophical in approach, Buddha in the Crown is a case study in religious and cultural change. It examines the various ways in which Avalokitesvara, the most well known and proliferated bodhisattva of Mahayana Buddhism throughout south, southeast, and east Asia, was assimilated into the transforming religious culture of Sri Lanka, one of the most pluralistic in Asia. Exploring the expressions of the bodhisattva's cult in Sanskrit and Sinhala literature, in iconography, epigraphy, ritual, symbol, and myth, the author develops a provocative thesis regarding the dynamics of religious change. Interdisciplinary in scope, addressing a wide variety of issues relating to Buddhist thought and practice, and providing new and original information on the rich cultural history of Sri Lanka, this book will interest students of Buddhism and South Asia.

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Download or read book Courtesans and Tantric Consorts written by Serinity Young and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Courtesans and Tantric Consorts, Serinity Young takes the reader on a journey through more than 2000 years of Buddhist history, revealing the colourful mosaic of beliefs that inform Buddhist views about gender and sexuality.

Download or read book The Iconography of the Buddhist Sculptures caves of Ellora written by Ramesh Shankar Gupte and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Indian Buddhist Iconography Mainly Based on the S dhanam l and Other Cognate T ntric Texts of Rituals written by Benoytosh Bhattacharyya and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: