Author: Simone GaulierPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004047440
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Buddhism in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Author: Simone GaulierPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004047440
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Buddhism in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Author: Simone GaulierPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004666729
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Buddhism in Central Asia
Author: Baij Nath PuriPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120803725
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Buddhism in Central Asia is a saga of peaceful pursuit by Buddhist scholars from Kashmir and Kabul to propagate the message of the Buddha. This vast region between the Tien-Shan and the Kunlun ranges was the centre of activities of these Buddhist savants. Here people of different races and professions, speaking many languages, were finally blended into a cosmopolitan culture. This created an intellectual climate of high order. In this context, the famous silk trade route was helpful in adding to the material prosperity of the people in this region. The present study, therefore, is not one of Buddhism in isolation. It equally provides an account of the political forces confronting each other during the course of history of this region for well over a thousand years. For centuries the drifting desert sand of Central Asia enveloped this civilization and the religion connected with it. The late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century explorers and archaeologists successfully uncovered it at different centres along the old Silk Route. This has been helpful for a comprehensive study of Buddhism with its literature and art. The finds of hundreds of inscriptions have added to the cultural dimensions of the study.
Buddhism in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Author: Simone GaulierPublisher:
ISBN: 9789004047464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Buddhism in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Author: Simone GaulierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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History of Buddhism in Afghanistan
Author: Sī. Esa UpāsakaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A Systematic Work On The History Of Buddhism In Afghanistan Which Was A Very Influential Region In Central Asia With Close Socio-Cultural Interaction With Ancient Tibet-Based On The Author`S Explorations In The Field. 12 Chapters-Bibliography, Index. 47 Illustration Including A Map.
Buddhism in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Author: Simone GaulierPublisher: Brill Academic Pub
ISBN: 9789004047471
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 53
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The Buddhas of Bamiyan
Author: Llewelyn MorganPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065387
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Main description: For 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by the Taliban in 2001 provoked international outrage. Llewelyn Morgan excavates the layers of meaning these vanished wonders hold for a fractured Afghanistan. Carved in the sixth and seventh centuries, the Buddhas represented a confluence of religious and artistic traditions from India, China, Central Asia, and Iran, and even an echo of Greek influence brought by Alexander the Great's armies. By the time Genghis Khan destroyed the town of Bamiyan six centuries later, Islam had replaced Buddhism as the local religion, and the Buddhas were celebrated as wonders of the Islamic world. Not until the nineteenth century did these figures come to the attention of Westerners. That is also the historical moment when the ground was laid for many of Afghanistan's current problems, including the rise of the Taliban and the oppression of the Hazara people of Bamiyan. In a strange twist, the Hazaras-descendants of the conquering Mongol hordes who stormed Bamiyan in the thirteenth century-had come to venerate the Buddhas that once dominated their valley as symbols of their very different religious identity. Incorporating the voices of the holy men, adventurers, and hostages throughout history who set eyes on the Bamiyan Buddhas, Morgan tells the history of this region of paradox and heartache.
Chasing The Monk's Shadow
Author: Mishi SaranPublisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143064398
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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Northern Frontiers of Buddhism
Author: Benoy K. BehlPublisher:
ISBN: 9788120838130
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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