Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Kashmir and Central Asia in the first millenium
This chapter describes Kashmir and Central Asia in the first millenium located on page 143 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 Kashmir and Central Asia in the first millenium. 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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Triveni Journal
Lalitaditya was one of the greatest Hindu of Kashmir. He conquered the neighbouring land of the Punjab and Central Asia and built the famous Martand temple. Sultan Zainul-ab-din ruled Kashmir in the beginning of the fifteenth century. Akbar conquered it in 1586. Jehangir and Shahjehan laid out a number of gardens there. After the defeat of the Sikhs in 1846 Kashmir and Gilgit passed from the hand of their Sikh masters to the British....
Read full contents: The Kashmir Tangle
The Great Buddhist Emperors of Asia [by Shibani Dutta]
Buddhism spread successfully to Central Asia and West Asia during this important era in the history of Buddhist rulers. Around middle of 3rd century before Christ, some nomadic and pastoral kind of tribes moved from Central Asia to the South and the West. They might have moved for the purpose of migration or in search of new fodder and pastoral fields and forest for their herds of cattle....
Read full contents: Chapter 2c - Kanishka as a Buddhist King (Circa 78 A.C.–101 A.C.)
Vietnamese Buddhist Art [by Nguyen Ngoc Vinh]
Beside that between the countries of South East Asia also influence from themselves such as the Avalokitesvara s head from Trà Kieu (Binh dinh) central Vietnam wears a crown of the type which is regularly seen among sculptures of the classical style of Champa, it may be seen in the reliefs at Loro Jonggrang in central Java. The bronze two armed in Bình D\nh (central Vietnam) also appears in the tenth century art style of Cambodia and peninsular Thailand....
Read full contents: 6. Avalokitesvara images in Indonesia
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[Cultural Horizons of India: index]
[About the Author (Lokesh Chandra)]
[Volume 1 (summary)]
[Volume 1 (preface)]
[Volume 2 (summary)]
[Volume 3 (summary)]
[Volume 4 (summary)]
[Volume 5 (summary)]
[Volume 6 (summary)]
[Volume 7 (summary)]