Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Meditative architectonics of the Borobudur
This chapter describes Meditative architectonics of the Borobudur located on page 231 of volume Volume 7 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 7 deals with the study of Sanskrit hymnology and the references to music in Vinaya and in several other texts. It further deals with Buddhist music in contemporary China, Korea and Japan.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Meditative architectonics of the Borobudur. 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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Vietnamese Buddhist Art [by Nguyen Ngoc Vinh]
In Borobudur, from the foot as from the top is a compact mass hillocky in the green plain with niches, little cupolas forming so many pinnacles. If we look at general of Borobudur we can see the lack of architectonic harmony between the six lower square terraces on the one hand and the three upper round terraces and the terminal stupa on the other, but as my idea, the change of architectonic between two hands is to reduce the mass of confusedly bristling of niches, pinnacles....
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Triveni Journal
The vision of a Borobudur in her regal splendour, with monks clad in yellow robes making their ‘Pradakshana Patha, passed before my mind s eye. I felt small tin my unworthiness, and when I thought of the general national degeneration, I felt very sad indeed. Only the purr of the engine reminded me of my return journey to Jogjakrata. 1 "Om mani padme hum. " 1 Borobudur is 50 miles from Jogjakrata, the seat of a Sultanate in Eastern Java. Buses ply between Jogja and Borobudur....
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Stupas in Orissa (Study) [by Meenakshi Chauley]
This type travelled to South East Asia and culminated in Borobudur with modifications. A noteworthy feature in the elevation pattern in some of the Stupas of Ladakh area is quite similar to the pidha type of tiers in the form of pyramidal structure of receding stepped mouldings of the Orissan temples indicating some close cultural links between Orissan and Indo-Tibetan structural tradition....
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