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 18 - Examining a Fifth-century Bilingual Votice Stone Stupa in China
This chapter describes Examining a Fifth-century Bilingual Votice Stone Stupa in China by Tsui Chunghui located on page 375 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: Examining a Fifth-century Bilingual Votice Stone Stupa in China— and was originally published by Tsui Chunghui.
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Settlement in Early Historic Ganga Plain [by Chirantani Das]
The monuments (The Dhamek Stupa). (The Dhamek Stupa) The most remarkable monument that immediately catches the attention of the visitor is the Dhamek stupa, reported by Alexander Cunningham first. It is a colossal, solid cylindrical stupa of a diameter of 93 feet at the base and about 143 feet in height including its foundations. Cunningham discovered the stupa in a rather sorry state with long grasses and vegetations grown on it....
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Amaravati Art in the Context of Andhra Archaeology [by Sreyashi Ray chowdhuri]
The discovery of two pillars decorated with half lotus, medallions and a fragment of the stone parapet of the drum of a votive stupa reveal the presence of the stupa, mandapa and a chaitya griha. (* 1) Ramachandran T. N,1963 (Reprint), Buddhist Sculptures from a stupa near Goli Village, Guntur District, Madras, p 1 (* 2) Mitra Debala, Op. cit, p 210 (* 3) Stone Elizabeth Rosen, 1994, Buddhist Art of Nagarjunakonda, Delhi, p 83....
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Stupas in Orissa (Study) [by Meenakshi Chauley]
Hence a Stupa worked like a book in stone offered for mediation to the devotees who came to circumambulate around the Stupa. The images of the masters appeared only in the first century CE till then his presence was represented only as symbols....
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[Buddhist Monasteries of South Asia and China: index]
[Foreword by R.C. Agrawal]
[Introduction by Sanjay Garg]