Architecture of Stupas in Orissa [Photo gallery]
These photographs accompany the study Stupas and Votive Stupas in Odisha or Orissa (Eastern India).—Buddhism dominated the life of people in India for more than 2500 years and form the beginning had a revolutionary and inspiring impact on the Indian art movement. Among the main architectural forms found in Buddhism ‘Stupa’ acquired a place of its own in the history of Indian architecture. Orissa has been associated with all the major contemporary religions in India, both the orthodox and heterodox. Along with other religions Buddhism also had a very long, prosperous and continuing history in this region till thirteenth-fourteenth century CE.
Among all the religious monuments of the world, the stupa has the largest uninterrupted historical development spanning more than 3 millenniums. In this thesis also the Stupa architecture in Orissa has been taken up and at the same time an attempt has been made to trace the historicity of Buddhism in Orisssa on the basis of the architectural development of Stupas.
Source: Shodhganga.
Gallery: 377 images
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