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 15 - Placing Images of Deities in Buddhist Temples
This chapter describes Placing Images of Deities in Buddhist Temples by Tianshu Zhu located on page 303 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: Placing Images of Deities in Buddhist Temples—A Comparison of India and China and was originally published by Tianshu Zhu.
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Jainism in Odisha (Orissa) [by Ashis Ranjan Sahoo]
Biswanatha Temple: It is located at a distance of 2km west of Phandi chowk of Balasore, from the National Highway No. 5. The Biswanatha temple complex (Pl. IXA) has four temples of Gaudiya style and miniature pidha style structure of later construction. These temples house images of various cult affiliations of Jaina, Buddhist and Brahmanical deities....
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Jain Remains of Ancient Bengal [by Shubha Majumder]
Modern Temples Containing Sculptural Specimens. During explorations in the different areas of ancient Bengal I have noticed that Jain images are still worshiped, however, these images are placed in the newly constructed temple in amalgamated contexts and worshiped as Brahmanical deities....
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Pallava period (Social and Cultural History) [by S. Krishnamurthy]
Thus, following the text the temple was built with the ground floor having the image of Sthanaka-Vishnu as the principal deity worshipped by Bhima and Parsvadevatas at the three cardinal sides -the southern niche with a standing image of Achyuta worshipped by Arjuna, the western niche has Aniruddha worshipped by Nakula and the northern one has Kalyanavarada worshipped by Sahadeva....
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[Buddhist Monasteries of South Asia and China: index]
[Foreword by R.C. Agrawal]
[Introduction by Sanjay Garg]