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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Saidu Sharif I (Swat, Pakistan).: The Buddhist sacred area, the monastery
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Saidu Sharif I (Swat, Pakistan).: The Graveyard
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Category : Buddhist monasteries
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Handbuch der Orientalistik
Author: Kurt A. BehrendtPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004135956
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Kurt Behrendt in this book for the first time and convincingly offers a description of the development of 2nd century B.C.E. to 8th century C.E. Buddhist sacred centers in ancient Gandhara, today northwest Pakistan.
Buddhist Architecture
Author: Huu Phuoc LePublisher: Grafikol
ISBN: 0984404309
Category : Buddhist architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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"The volume thoroughly examines the origins and principal types of Buddhist architecture in Asia primarily between the third century BCE-twelfth century CE with an emphasis on India. It aims to construct shared architectural traits and patterns alongwith the derivative relationships between Indian and Asian Buddhist monuments. It also discusses the historical antecedents in the Indus Civilization and the religious and philosophical foundations of the three schools of Buddhism and its founder, Buddha. Previously obscure topics such as Aniconic and Vajrayana (Tantric) architecture and the four holiest sites of Buddhism will also be covered in this comprehensive volume. The author further investigates the influences of Buddhist architecture upon Islamic, Christian, and Hindu architecture that have been overlooked by past scholars."
The Art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392244
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 3
Author: Marylin M. RhiePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004184007
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Presenting new studies on the chronology and iconography of Buddhist art during the Western Ch'in (385-431 A.D.) in northwest China, including Ping-ling ssu and Mai-chi shan, this book addresses issues of dating, textual sources, the five-Buddhas, and relation with Gandhara.
Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 3
Author: Marylin Martin RhiePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004190198
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1017
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This book, third in a series on the early Buddhist art of China and Central Asia, centers on Buddhist art from the Western Ch'in (385-431 A.D.) in eastern Kansu (northwest China), primarily from the cave temples of Ping-ling ssu and Mai-chi shan. A detailed chronological and iconographic study of sculptures and wall paintings in Cave 169 at Ping-ling ssu particularly yields a chronological framework for unlocking the difficult issues of dating early fifth century Chinese Buddhist art, and offers some new insights into textual sources in the Lotus, Hua-yen and Amitabha sutras. Further, this study introduces the iconographpy of the five Buddhas and its relation to the art of Gandhara and the famous five colossal T'an-yao caves at Yün-kang.
Gandhara, the Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan
Author: Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan, 1931-1985
Author: Tissot, FrancinePublisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231040308
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 543
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This important catalogue presents the collection in its entirety, before the looting and destruction of war. It is an invaluable tool in the fight against illicit trafficking and the preservation of Afghanistan's cultural heritage. Situated at the crossroads of the world's oldest trade routes and populated by a mosaic of cultures, Afghanistan has been the theatre of repeated conflicts over its long and complex history. In the midst of the warfare and civil unrest that ravaged this ancient land during the last two decades of the twentieth century, hundreds of precious artefacts were plundered from the collections of the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul, which was founded in the early 1930s. The destruction of these irreplaceable treasures like the much-publicized Bamiyan Buddhas that were brutally destroyed in 2001 represents a tremendous loss not only for the people of Afghanistan but for all of humanity.With the aim of keeping alive the memory of the museum's scattered collections, specialist Francine Tissot has compiled a systematic listing of the holdings as they were conserved, in their intact state, in the museum's showcases and reserve collections until 1985. This comprehensive catalogue, is illustrated with over 1,600 photographs and drawings.
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