Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
New Sources for Buddhist iconography
This chapter describes New Sources for Buddhist iconography located on page 135 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 New Sources for Buddhist iconography. 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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Jain Remains of Ancient Bengal [by Shubha Majumder]
Jain s work entitled The Jain Sources of the History of Ancient India (1964) was an assessment of the historical worth of the Jain sources of Indian history during the epochmaking millennium of 100 BCE to 900 CE. M. L....
Read full contents: The General Study of Jainism
Jainism in Odisha (Orissa) [by Ashis Ranjan Sahoo]
An attempt has been made here to highlight the lesser known epigraphical records either deciphered or yet to deciphered to throw some new light on the Jainism in Odisha. Besides, Hati-Gumpha inscription, the minor inscriptions in the different caves of Udayagiri and Khandagiri, the Asanpat inscription of Keonjhar, Banapur Copper Plate Grant of Dharmaraja-II alias Manabhita and so on are taken into account for reconstructing valuable source material for the Jaina antiquities of Odisha....
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Stupas in Orissa (Study) [by Meenakshi Chauley]
In Chapter-3 ‘Development of Stupa Architecture in India the various aspects and sources of development of stupa s origin, evolution and structural arrangement and architectural phenomenon of as seen in India and abroad has been discussed. Different Buddhist texts throw light on erecting a stupa, there components and importance of each and every part of the stupa i. e; vedhi, medhi, anda, harmika and chatravali....
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[Volume 4 (summary)]
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