Religious

Prizewinning author Harr embarks on a spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as "The Taking of Ch... More

For as long as space endures As long as suffering remains, Until then may I, too, abide To dispel the misery of the world. - Eighth-century Buddhist master Shatideva's A guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of life.... More

George Michell provides a pioneering and richly illustrated introduction to the architecture, sculpture and painting of Southern India under the Vijayanagara empire and the states that succeeded it. This period, encompassing some four hundred years, from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, was... More

Photos Of The Gods examines the history of the printed image in India from its beginnings in the1870s to the present day. Using many intriguing and unfamiliar visuals, it showshow printed images have been pivotal to the constructions of new forms ofreligious identity and the struggle for politica... More

The book, highlights the essential import of the innocuous-looking, yet enigmatic, diagrams called Yantras surfacing from the occult practices of the tantrics. It examines a range of tantric yantras, with their varieties, applications, modes of construction and above all their iconographic features.... More

This Dictionary attempts to reveal the ‘divine paradoxes’ of Buddhist-Hindu iconography by even interpreting the nuances of their iconic language. It explains, vividly, thousands of iconic representations (visual, conceptual symbols, images, objects, concepts, rites).... More

This book attemptsto present a sketch of Buddha's life as well as well-known and important godsand goddess as represented in the art of eastern India of which the Pala art wasan important product. This study will, it is hoped, unfold many unknownfacts of Pala art to students of art. An impetus is al... More

Meant for popular reading, this book makes an inquisitivevisitor appreciate the rich and beautiful sculptures exhibited in the galleriesof the Mathura museum. Beginning with a historical background of Mathura, thebook describes the development of Mathura sculpture with its characteristics indetail. ... More

This authoritative and sumptuous study of the cultural heritage of the Sikhs is published to coincide with the major exhibition at theV&A in March 1999. In 1801 Ranjit Singh was proclaimed the first Sikh Maharaja of the Panjab, the 'land of the five rivers', at Lahore. The magnificent illustrations ... More

Dr. Tanaka, for the first time ever, explores the ‘absence’ of the Buddha-image in early Buddhist art. Applying the motif of the ‘empty throne’, she undertakes a comparative study of Buddhism and other religions.... More

The book highlights the true iconographic import of numbers/ numerology in Hindu and Buddhist practices — bringing out, in detail, the unique properties of each iconographically significant number: ranged between ‘one’ (1) and ‘one thousand and twenty four’ (1024).... More

This work is the outcome of an international conference on "Buddhismand Gandhara Art" organized when the then Taliban government ofAfghanistan was bent upon destroying the marvelous creations of Gandhara artincluding the great Bamiyan Buddha. It is an academic homage to those splendidtreas... More