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Book Synopsis The Four Great Temples by : Donald F. McCallum
Download or read book The Four Great Temples written by Donald F. McCallum and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his detailed analysis of the four temples, McCallum considers historiographical issues, settings and layouts, foundations, tiles, relics, and icons and allows readers to follow their chronological evolutions.
Book Synopsis The Four Great Temples by : Donald F. McCallum
Download or read book The Four Great Temples written by Donald F. McCallum and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few periods in Japanese history are more fascinating than the seventh century. This was the period when Buddhism experienced its initial flowering in the country and the time when Asukadera, Kudara Odera, Kawaradera, and Yakushiji (the "Four Great Temples" as they were called in ancient texts) were built. Despite their enormous historical importance, these structures have received only limited attention in Western literature, primarily because they are now ruins. Focus has been placed instead on Horyuji, a beautifully preserved structure, but not a key temple of the period. Donald McCallum seeks in this volume to restore the four great temples to their proper place in the history of Japanese Buddhism and Buddhist architecture. Extraordinary archaeological discoveries in the past few decades in the Asuka-Fujiwara area provide the basis for the monumental task McCallum has set for himself. Three of the temples have been studied archaeologically, but one, Kudara Odera (the first royal temple in Japan), has until recently been known only through textual references—primarily those mentioning its nine-story pagoda, a format closely linked to the grandiose royal temples of China and Korea. A series of digs carried out between 1997 and 2001 at Kibi Pond yielded what are thought to be the remains of Kudara Odera. A platform, the appropriate size for a large pagoda, has been uncovered at the site, indicating the reliability of the textual sources. These results have necessitated a rethinking of early Buddhist architecture in Japan. The Four Great Temples gives the first detailed account in the English language of these excavations. In his detailed analyses of each of the four temples, McCallum considers historiographical issues, settings and layouts, foundations, tiles, relics, and icons and allows readers to follow their chronological evolution. A key feature is the interweaving of archaeological and documentary data to clarify numerous historical problems that have until now resisted plausible solutions. Although the focus is on temples, the book looks at broader political and religious developments that serve as a context for the study. It further makes an effort to unify data on great royal temples in China, Korea, and other parts of Japan, thereby providing cross-cultural insights into a matter that has frequently been discussed only in terms of a single region. The Four Temples is a masterful, multifaceted study that will fundamentally alter and enrich current understanding of Japan’s ancient Buddhist temples. It is sure to generate considerable discussion among scholars in the fields of Japanese and Asian history, art history, and Buddhist studies.
Book Synopsis Miscellaneous Investigations in Central Tikal--Great Temples III, IV, V, and VI by : H. Stanley Loten
Download or read book Miscellaneous Investigations in Central Tikal--Great Temples III, IV, V, and VI written by H. Stanley Loten and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maya center of Tikal, in Guatemala, is famous for its well-preserved architecture. This book presents detailed descriptions of four of the six Great Temples that dominate Tikal's city center. Whereas Great Temples I and II were published in 1990 in Tikal Report 14, the four structures presented here are Great Temples III, IV, V, and VI. All but Great Temple V represent Late Classic construction and can be associated with known rulers. It is tempting to think of these structures as funerary monuments, but this is only a supposition. Their relationship with rulers may have been much more complex. This report is the primary record of these important buildings in Tikal's urban landscape. It provides clear, precise, and usable architectural analyses for Mayanists, archaeologists, art historians, architectural historians, urbanists, and those interested in construction techniques and in the uses of Maya buildings. University Museum Monograph, 146
Book Synopsis Amazing Temples of the World by : Michael Kerrigan
Download or read book Amazing Temples of the World written by Michael Kerrigan and published by Amber Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized by continent, Amazing Temples of the World offers the reader an intimate portrait of some spectacular and unusual places of worship dating from the fourth millennium BCE to the present. Ornate or spartan, immense or intimate, from the Middle East to California, this book features such impressive places of worship as the Mahabhodi Temple, India, built in the location where Buddha is thought to have achieved enlightenment; the fifth-century BCE Temple of Confucius in Qufu, China, the largest Confucian temple in the world; Abu Simbel, in southern Egypt, the great carved monument to the Pharaoh Ramses II; the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, the spiritual home of the world's 25 million Sikhs; and the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Neasden, London, the biggest Hindu temple outside India. Illustrated with 180 photographs, Amazing Temples of the World includes more than 150 places of worship, from Ancient Greece and Rome, through traditional synagogues to modern Buddhist, Taoist, and Sikh temples.
Book Synopsis An Ancient History by : Arsenius John Baptist Vuibert
Download or read book An Ancient History written by Arsenius John Baptist Vuibert and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Student's Ancient History by : Philip Smith
Download or read book The Student's Ancient History written by Philip Smith and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ancient Buddhism in Japan by : Marinus Willem de Visser
Download or read book Ancient Buddhism in Japan written by Marinus Willem de Visser and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Smaller Ancient History of the East by : Philip Smith
Download or read book A Smaller Ancient History of the East written by Philip Smith and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Student's Ancient History. The Ancient History of the East. From the Earliest Times to the Conquest of Alexander the Great ... Illustrated, Etc by : Philip SMITH (B.A.)
Download or read book The Student's Ancient History. The Ancient History of the East. From the Earliest Times to the Conquest of Alexander the Great ... Illustrated, Etc written by Philip SMITH (B.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ancient History of the East ... by : Philip Smith (Head-Master of the Millhill School.)
Download or read book The Ancient History of the East ... written by Philip Smith (Head-Master of the Millhill School.) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture by : Adolf Furtwängler
Download or read book Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture written by Adolf Furtwängler and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions by : Asiatic Society of Japan
Download or read book Transactions written by Asiatic Society of Japan and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Standard History of the World, by Great Historians by :
Download or read book The Standard History of the World, by Great Historians written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Great Temples of India, Ceylon, and Burma by : Asian Educ Service
Download or read book The Great Temples of India, Ceylon, and Burma written by Asian Educ Service and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1988 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mostly on Hindu temples in India, and Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka and Burma.
Book Synopsis Hōryūji Reconsidered by : Dorothy C. Wong
Download or read book Hōryūji Reconsidered written by Dorothy C. Wong and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993, the HÅ ryÅ«ji temple complex includes some of the oldest and largest surviving wooden buildings in the world. The original HÅ ryÅ«ji temple was built between 601 and 607 by Prince Regent ShÅ toku (573?â "622), one of Japanâ (TM)s best-known cultural heroes. The construction of the temple marked the introduction of Buddhism and Buddhist art and architecture to Japan from China, by way of the Korean peninsula, as promoted by Prince ShÅ toku. After a fire in 670 that destroyed the site, the temple was rebuilt and enlarged. HÅ ryÅ«ji became one of Japanâ (TM)s leading centers of Buddhist scholarship as well as a focus for the cult of its founder, Prince ShÅ toku. This volume of essays originate from the â oeThe Dawn of East Asian International Buddhist Art and Architecture: HÅ ryÅ«ji (Temple of the Exalted Law) in Its Contextsâ symposium held at the University of Virginia in October 2005. Covering the disciplines of archaeology, architecture, architectural history, art history, and religion, these essays aim to shed new light on the HÅ ryÅ«ji complex by (1) examining new archaeological materials, (2) incorporating computer analysis of the structural system of the pagoda, and (3) including cross-cultural, interdisciplinary perspectives that reflect current research in various fields.
Book Synopsis Great Temples of the East by : Sacheverell Sitwell
Download or read book Great Temples of the East written by Sacheverell Sitwell and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
