Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Kanchi and the cultural efflorescence of Asia
This chapter describes Kanchi and the cultural efflorescence of Asia located on page 128 of volume Volume 1 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
The first volume presents the evolution of ideas that emerge from a broad spectrum of quests in languages such as Sanskrit, Greek and Latin (etc.) and further presents an introduction to Indonesian history, art and linguistics.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Kanchi and the cultural efflorescence of Asia. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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