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ISBN 13 : 9789388770064
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Monuments written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Krishna Kumari
Publisher : Readworthy
ISBN 13 : 8193534565
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Monuments written by J. Krishna Kumari and published by Readworthy. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is one of the potential segments of economy to promote both direct and indirect employment opportunities and thereby national income. It also plays a significant role in promotion of mutual understanding among people of different lands and cultures. This book attempts to study the prospects of tourism in Andhra Pradesh, with special emphasis on Buddhist Circuits. Taking a lose look at the development of tourism in the state, it traces the history, sites and monuments of Buddhism. It also presents a detailed study of Buddhist Circuits and tourism in the state.
Author : Justin Thomas McDaniel
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082487675X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Architects of Buddhist Leisure written by Justin Thomas McDaniel and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region—in Nepal, Japan, Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure—what he calls “socially disengaged Buddhism”—through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Moreover, places like Lek Wiriyaphan’s Sanctuary of Truth in Thailand, Suối Tiên Amusement Park in Saigon, and Shi Fa Zhao’s multilevel museum/ritual space/tea house in Singapore reflect a growing Buddhist ecumenism built through repetitive affective encounters instead of didactic sermons and sectarian developments. They present different Buddhist traditions, images, and aesthetic expressions as united but not uniform, collected but not concise: Together they form a gathering, not a movement. Despite the ingenuity of lay and ordained visionaries like Wiriyaphan and Zhao and their colleagues Kenzo Tange, Chan-soo Park, Tadao Ando, and others discussed in this book, creators of Buddhist leisure sites often face problems along the way. Parks and museums are complex adaptive systems that are changed and influenced by budgets, available materials, local and global economic conditions, and visitors. Architects must often compromise and settle at local optima, and no matter what they intend, their buildings will develop lives of their own. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure asks readers to question the very category of “religious” architecture. It challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture.
Author : W. Vivian De Thabrew
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496998979
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Monuments and Temples of Cambodia and Laos written by W. Vivian De Thabrew and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume in my series on Buddhist monuments and temples in South Asia, and the last one dealing with orthodox or Theravada Buddhism. The advent of Theravada Buddhism in Cambodia and Laos came during the 11th century, while Mahayana Buddhism came much earlier to Cambodia. Laos, however, with its constant contact with Thailand (Siam), inherited Theravada or the pure form of Buddhism. The specific origins of the peoples of these countries are uncertain due to the lack of historical documentation. Due to the constant wars and invasions between these and neighbouring countries such as Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand (Siam), many temples, monasteries and stupas suffered destruction, and statues and other religious artefacts were pillaged. Therefore there are far fewer historical temples and monuments than might have been expected. In fact Sri Lanka is the only Theravada country in which there are substantial ancient Buddhist monuments and temples remaining in good order and still in use. Furthermore, the history of these is well documented, the oldest ones dating back to the Buddha. It is impossible to comprehensively deal with such an expansive subject encompassing the two countries in this small volume. Therefore I have confined myself to areas and places which have grown in popularity, are of major importance and those which are easily accessible. During the course of writing the books in this series I have visited all the sites dealt within them and taken most of the photographs. It is sincerely hoped that this small volume will be useful to those who are interested in seeing the monuments described, and also kindle their interest in the study of this subject.
Author : W. Vivian De Thabrew
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491896221
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Monuments and Temples of Myanmar and Thailand written by W. Vivian De Thabrew and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a mainly pictorial work, featuring recent color photographs taken by the author of the many different styles and features of Buddhist images, stupas, or pagodas found in two of the most prominent Buddhist countries in Asia. Accompanying the photographs is the text describing the magnificent architectural heritage of Buddhism and also explaining the origin and development of the images and stupas. The photographs attempt to exhibit the physical expression of one of the worlds major religions, which now has many adherents in the West as well as in the East. These Buddhist sites now attract many thousands of visitors, both pilgrims and tourists, all year round. This book showcases the most prominent sites for both the visitor and the armchair traveler. This is the second in the authors series of books on Buddhist architecture and iconography. He is, at present, working on a third volume, Buddhist Monuments and Temples of Cambodia and Laos.
Author : Alexander Cunningham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Bhilsa Topes, Or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India written by Alexander Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Archæological Survey of India. Northern Circle. S Survey of India. Superintendent, Hindu and Buddhist Monuments
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Annual Progress Report of the Superintendent, Hindu and Buddhist Monuments, Northern Circle, for the Year Ending ... written by Archæological Survey of India. Northern Circle. S Survey of India. Superintendent, Hindu and Buddhist Monuments and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Alexander Cunningham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Bhilsa Topes; Or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India, Etc written by Sir Alexander Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Huu Phuoc Le
Publisher : Grafikol
ISBN 13 : 0984404309
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Architecture written by Huu Phuoc Le and published by Grafikol. This book was released on 2010 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."
Author : Daijō Tokiwa
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Monuments in China written by Daijō Tokiwa and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daigoro Chihara
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644962
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Hindu-Buddhist Architecture in Southeast Asia written by Daigoro Chihara and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the technical, artistic and architectural aspects of the Hindu and Buddhist monuments from the beginning until today in Southeast Asia.
Author : Akira Shimada
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004232834
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Early Buddhist Architecture in Context written by Akira Shimada and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an updated chronology of the Amar?vat? st?pa and argues its close link with the long-term development of urbanization of this region between ca. 200 BCE-250 CE based on the latest archaeological, art-historical and epigraphic evidence.
Author : Kurt Behrendt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047412575
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Buddhist Architecture of Gandhāra written by Kurt Behrendt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhara, with its wide variety of architectural remains and sculptures, has for many decades perplexed students of South and Central Asia. Kurt Behrendt in this volume 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. Regional variations in architecture and sculpture in the Peshawar basin, Swat, and Taxila are discussed. At last a chronological framework is given for the architecture and the sculpture of Gandhara, but also light is being shed on how relic structures were utilized through time, as devotional imagery became increasingly significant to Buddhist religious practice. With an important comparative overview of architectural remains, it is indispensable for all those interested in the development of the early Buddhist tradition of south and central Asia and the roots of Buddhism elsewhere in Asia.
Author : D. C. Ahir
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Buddhist World Heritage Monuments in Asia written by D. C. Ahir and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Percy Brown
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447498577
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Period) written by Percy Brown and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few countries possess a richer architectural heritage than India, a country whose buildings are rooted in history, culture, and religion. As a results of India's global discourse with other regions around the world, there have been many influences that have been assimilated into its architecture, producing unique, varied and lively results. This fantastic volume walks the reader through India's history, both architecturally and culturally, exploring its different styles of buildings and providing interesting insights into their origin and evolution. “Indian Architecture” is highly recommended for those with an interest in architecture and Indian history alike. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on architecture.
Author : Debala Mitra
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Monuments written by Debala Mitra and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Edward Gordon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000783170
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Architecture in America written by Robert Edward Gordon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive overview of Buddhist architecture in North America and provides an analysis of Buddhist architecture and communities. Exploring the arrival of Buddhist architecture in America, the book lays out how Buddhists have expressed their spiritual beliefs in structural form in the United States. The story follows the parallel history of the religion’s emergence in the United States since the California Gold Rush to the present day. Conceived of as a general history, the book investigates Buddhist structures with respect to the humanistic qualities associated with Buddhist doctrine and how Buddhist groups promote their faith and values in an American setting. The author’s point of view starts from the ground floor of the buildings to move deeper into the space of Buddhist practice, the mind that seeks enlightenment, and the structures that help one to do so. It discusses Buddhist architecture in the United States in a manner consistent with the intensely human context of its use. A unique and ground-breaking analysis, this book adds to the study of Buddhist architecture in America while also addressing the topic of how and why Buddhists use architecture in general. It will be of interest to scholars of religion, architecture, space and place, U.S. history, Asian Studies, and Buddhist Studies. It will also be a valuable addition to the libraries of Buddhist communities across the United States and the world, since many of the observations about Buddhist architecture in the United States may also apply to structures in Europe and Asia.
