Buddhist Art: Form & Meaning - Hardcover
New insights and interpretations of symbols and images explain the interrelationships of Buddhist art and literary traditions from the 1st century BCE to the 10th century CE.
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Pratapaditya Pal is the General Editor of Marg Publications and an internationally recognized authority on the arts and cultures of the Indian subcontinent, the Himalaya, and Southeast Asia.
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- PublisherMarg Foundation
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 8185026785
- ISBN 13 9788185026787
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages132
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 132pp. Contents 1. Introduction/Pratapaditya Pal. 2. Pipal tree tonsured monks and Ushnisha/Gautama Vajracharya. 3. The representation of the Buddha's birth and death in the Aniconic period/J.E. Van Lohuizen de Leeuw. 4 Observations on The Representation of the Buddha's Birth and Death in the Aniconic Period /Sonya Rhie Quintanilla. 5. An unusual Naga protected Buddha from Thailand/Pratapaditya Pal. 6. The Naga Protected Buddha in the Norton Simon Museum further comments/Joyanto K. Sen. 7. The Karandavyuha Sutra and Buddhist Art in 10 century Cambodia/Hiram Woodward. 8. Do jewelleries provide chronological clues A preliminary study of wrathful deities in early Tibetan Thankas/Steven Kossak. 9. A 16 century Ladakhi School of Buddhist painting/Erberto Lo Bue. 10. A pilgrim to the Buddhist Himalayas/Jaroslav Poncar. Index. Both spatially and temporally the scope of this book is expansive. Spatially the essays cover a vast swathe of Asia stretching from Mathura in India to Thailand in Southeast Asia including the Himalayan Region. Temporally the period covered is over a millennium from the 1 century BCE to the 10 century CE. Conceptually the essays cover issues of iconology and styles of Buddhist art offer new insights and interpretations of both symbols and images and explain the interrelationships of Buddhist art and literary traditions of the subcontinent the Himalaya and Southeast Asia. The first essay is a radical interpretation of the peculiar manner of depicting the Buddha's hair the significance of the shaven heads of monks and of the ushnisha in the context of Vedic regal symbolism. Two related essays discuss the early Buddhist narrative art of Mathura when the devotion of the Buddhists was focused on physical emblems associated with the Buddha's life rather than his human representations. The next group of articles in devoted to the interaction of the Buddhist arts of the countries of South and Southeast Asia. Taking a rare stone image of the Naga Protected Buddha from the Dvaravati period in Thailand as a point of departure the first essays deals with the issue of transmission of iconographic ideas and motifs between India Sri Lanka and Thailand. This is followed by another scholar's insights on the same Naga protected Buddha. A third essay brings to light evidence for the familiarity of the famous Buddhist text Karandavyuha Sutra in Thailand and its import for the cult of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. The final chapters are devoted to the Buddhist art of India and Tibet and their interrelationships. The first makes an important methodological contribution by discussing the manner in which ornaments are depicted in the Buddhist art of the Pala period in Eastern India (8 11 century) and how thereafter portraits in Tibet interpreted these elements. Another essay concentrates on a little known school of painting that flourished in 16 century Ladakh now a part of the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir. The volume concludes with a photo essay that brilliantly portrays the spectacular landscape and Buddhist art of the Western Himalaya. Seller Inventory # 1142017
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