Buddhist Monasteries of South Asia and China
author: Sanjay Garg
edition: 2019, Manohar Publishers and Distributors
pages: 403
ISBN-10: 9350981602
ISBN-13: 9789350981603
Topic: History
Chapter 1 - The Buddhist Monasteries and Stupas in the Lumbini Region of Nepal
This chapter describes The Buddhist Monasteries and Stupas in the Lumbini Region of Nepal by Gyanin Rai located on page 27 in the book Buddhist Monasteries of South Asia and China compiled by Sanjay Garg. This book comprises 18 papers that were presented by leading archaeologists and art historians from South Asia and China at an international conference on ‘Buddhist Monasteries in South Asia and China’ organized by the Society for Buddhist Art and Archaeology (SBAA) in New Delhi in December 2015.
Buddhism binds the two most populated regions of the world-South Asia and China. This volume aims to provide fresh insights and information on new sites and place them along with the earlier known ones in a wider cultural landscape. This paper is named: The Buddhist Monasteries and Stupas in the Lumbini Region of Nepal— and was originally published by Gyanin Rai.
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Stupas in Orissa (Study) [by Meenakshi Chauley]
The next important commemorative Stupa constructed at Nalanda in honour of Sariputra. During the day of Mauryans, Ashoka and subsequently in the Gupta period it turned into a huge monastery complex later well known as university of Nalanda. The ruins of the Ancient Buddhist establishments of Nalanda lie close to the village of Bargaon, south-east of Patna and north of Rajagriha. The temples were constructed on the west facing east and the monasteries on the east faces west....
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Settlement in Early Historic Ganga Plain [by Chirantani Das]
It is a free standing solid structure, in an open court and surrounded by many votive stupas built. Cunningham also speaks of similar smaller stupas made of blue stone. The stupas concentrated more on the west than on the east of the main stupa. When examined, these stupas revealed at least three different strata. The third and the outermost layer was the latest as represented by a pavement joining some of the stupas. In the interior the older strata are found....
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Vietnamese Buddhist Art [by Nguyen Ngoc Vinh]
Ashoka is a first person who played a unique role in the development of Buddhist art in India and neighbor countries: “He distributed the contents of the seven out of the eight Saririka stupas among innumerable stupas built by him. He also enlarged the stupa of the Manushi-Buddha Kanakamuni; his pillar recording the event was found by the side of Nigali-Sagar, 13 miles to the north-west of Lumbini. . . . . . ....
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[Buddhist Monasteries of South Asia and China: index]
[Foreword by R.C. Agrawal]
[Introduction by Sanjay Garg]