Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
The Tibetan state and Buddhist culture
This chapter describes The Tibetan state and Buddhist culture located on page 91 of volume Volume 6 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.
Volume 6 includes studies that have been finalised during the last five years. The first chapter deals with pensive images seated in half-locked posture (hankaza) found in China, Korea and Japan.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes The Tibetan state and Buddhist culture. 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
One by one the provinces were torn from the old empire by the Mongol Emperors of China, and the northern invaders of Tibetan stock. During the collapse, a number of monuments were left unfinished. Most of the jungle tribes had shrunk to insignificant numbers owing to tropical disease, and again lapsed into a pitiable state....
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The Great Buddhist Emperors of Asia [by Shibani Dutta]
The Buddhist temples that were built in 5th and 6th centuries under the strong patronage of the rulers contributed to Buddhist culture. Buddhism of Korea adhered to the religious doctrine imported from India through China, but the religion combined together with the existing Indigenous beliefs started to develop the unique style of Korean Buddhist temples....
Read full contents: Chapter 5 - Korean Emperor Wang Kiyen (918 A.C.–949 A.C.)
Vietnamese Buddhist Art [by Nguyen Ngoc Vinh]
The first known state in Thailand is that of the Buddhist Mon flourishing from the sixth to the eleventh centuries in central Thailand. It is referred to today as Dvaravati, from the appearance of this name on excavated coins. A rich heritage of sculpture, both Hinayanist and Mahayanist, in terracotta, stone and bronze, as well as remains of stupas, survive from this splendid Buddhist culture....
Read full contents: 6. The Sculpture and its Reciprocal Influence
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[Volume 4 (summary)]
[Volume 5 (summary)]
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