Religious

This book is panoramic survey of the history of Buddhist art from its origins in India to its final efflorescence in Japan.Prof.Chikyo Yamamoto gives the main outlines of its evolution in India,Srilanka,Indonesia,Kambuja,Vietnam,Thailand,Burma, Afghanistan,Chinese Turkistan,China,Korea and Japan.... More

The aim of this volume is to present a connected history of different forms of Buddhist art which flourished in South-East Asia, especially Thailand, from the early years of Christian era up to the end of the sixteenth century. The book thus furnishes for the first time, a connected and comprehensiv... More

This volume deals with Ananda K. Coomaraswamy's contribution to the study of Jaina art. His writings on Jaina art span the entire period of his active working life as an art historian. It is hoped that Coomaraswamys seminal and profound contribution to the study of Indian painting will benefit not o... More

This book reproduces three albums of Tamra Devarupa,illustrating Hindu deities in their several forms,some of which have evolved in Thailand.It is the first book in English to detail the Hindu iconography of Thailand,along with a classification of its morphological types and its evolution over the c... More

The Sun-God who was popular in the Vedic age continued to be worshipped even in the post Vedic period.The cult of Sun is said to have been imported by Samba from the Sakadvipa.The epics and the Puranas including Mahatmyas contain many references to the spread of the Sun-cult in Gujarat as well as in... More

The Dictionary details the characteristic attributes,chronology and symbolism of over twelve thousand main and minor deities.It reflects the extraordinary cultural, literary,aesthetic and spiritual achievements of several nations of Asia over two millennia.It will help to identify the masterpieces a... More

The cosmopolis of deities is a journey into the heart of Buddhism.They are the organic universality that asserts our right of subjectivity to recover the underlying rhythms of consciousness.The iconic world of transcendence is the realm of living reality away from the world of destructive formlessne... More

The Dictionary details the characteristic attributes,chronology and symbolism of over twelve thousand main and minor deities.It reflects the extraordinary cultural, literary,aesthetic and spiritual achievements of several nations of Asia over two millennia.It will help to identify the masterpieces a... More

The Dictionary details the characteristic attributes,chronology and symbolism of over twelve thousand main and minor deities.It reflects the extraordinary cultural, literary,aesthetic and spiritual achievements of several nations of Asia over two millennia.It will help to identify the masterpieces a... More

The Dictionary details the characteristic attributes,chronology and symbolism of over twelve thousand main and minor deities.It reflects the extraordinary cultural, literary,aesthetic and spiritual achievements of several nations of Asia over two millennia.It will help to identify the masterpieces a... More

The Dictionary details the characteristic attributes,chronology and symbolism of over twelve thousand main and minor deities.It reflects the extraordinary cultural, literary,aesthetic and spiritual achievements of several nations of Asia over two millennia.It will help to identify the masterpieces a... More

The Dictionary details the characteristic attributes,chronology and symbolism of over twelve thousand main and minor deities.It reflects the extraordinary cultural, literary,aesthetic and spiritual achievements of several nations of Asia over two millennia.It will help to identify the masterpieces a... More

The Dictionary details the characteristic attributes,chronology and symbolism of over twelve thousand main and minor deities.It reflects the extraordinary cultural, literary,aesthetic and spiritual achievements of several nations of Asia over two millennia.It will help to identify the masterpieces a... More

Iconography of the Thousand Buddhas records their names in Sanskrit,Tibetan, Manchu,Mongolian and Chinese,in original scripts from a pentaglot xylograph whose microfilm was brought from Beijing by Prof.Dr.RaghuVira in 1955,as well as in romanisation.These have been supplemented by Sanskrit names fro... More

The book highlights the art treasures of Kosambi, a famous ancient centre of Buddhist art, through a study of over 300 stone sculptures, paying special attention to their iconographic features, the stone types, carving, grinding and polishing techniques and their aesthetic appeal. It discusses the u... More

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It deals with the development and fundamental aspects of Buddhist Tantrism and its impact on paintings and the sculptural art of India. It discusses concepts and schools of Tantrism citing Buddhist Tantric works.... More

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