Hindu-Buddhist Architecture in Southeast Asia
Title | Hindu-Buddhist Architecture in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Daigorō Chihara |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9789004105126 |
This book deals with the technical, artistic and architectural aspects of the Hindu and Buddhist monuments from the beginning until today in Southeast Asia.
Bhutan's Buddhist Architecture
Title | Bhutan's Buddhist Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Blake |
Publisher | |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 2015-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780996663908 |
Bhutan is a small Himalayan country with a rich Buddhist heritage and a striking architectural style. Bhutan's Buddhist Architecture provides an introduction and travel guide to the country's beautiful temples, monasteries and dzongs--the fortresses built while Bhutan was being unified as a Buddhist state. Illustrated with maps, plans, and more than a hundred photographs the book includes brief historical and architectural overviews, a dozen examples of the country's best-known buildings, and a pictorial glossary of forty Buddhist symbols commonly used in building decoration.
Architects of Buddhist Leisure
Title | Architects of Buddhist Leisure PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Thomas McDaniel |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2018-04-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 082487675X |
Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region—in Nepal, Japan, Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure—what he calls “socially disengaged Buddhism”—through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Moreover, places like Lek Wiriyaphan’s Sanctuary of Truth in Thailand, Suối Tiên Amusement Park in Saigon, and Shi Fa Zhao’s multilevel museum/ritual space/tea house in Singapore reflect a growing Buddhist ecumenism built through repetitive affective encounters instead of didactic sermons and sectarian developments. They present different Buddhist traditions, images, and aesthetic expressions as united but not uniform, collected but not concise: Together they form a gathering, not a movement. Despite the ingenuity of lay and ordained visionaries like Wiriyaphan and Zhao and their colleagues Kenzo Tange, Chan-soo Park, Tadao Ando, and others discussed in this book, creators of Buddhist leisure sites often face problems along the way. Parks and museums are complex adaptive systems that are changed and influenced by budgets, available materials, local and global economic conditions, and visitors. Architects must often compromise and settle at local optima, and no matter what they intend, their buildings will develop lives of their own. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure asks readers to question the very category of “religious” architecture. It challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture.
Buddhist Architecture
Title | Buddhist Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Huu Phuoc Le |
Publisher | Grafikol |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Buddhist architecture |
ISBN | 0984404309 |
"The volume thoroughly examines the origins and principal types of Buddhist architecture in Asia primarily between the third century BCE-twelfth century CE with an emphasis on India. It aims to construct shared architectural traits and patterns alongwith the derivative relationships between Indian and Asian Buddhist monuments. It also discusses the historical antecedents in the Indus Civilization and the religious and philosophical foundations of the three schools of Buddhism and its founder, Buddha. Previously obscure topics such as Aniconic and Vajrayana (Tantric) architecture and the four holiest sites of Buddhism will also be covered in this comprehensive volume. The author further investigates the influences of Buddhist architecture upon Islamic, Christian, and Hindu architecture that have been overlooked by past scholars."
Buddhist Art and Architecture
Title | Buddhist Art and Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Fisher |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780500202654 |
Buddhism is the single common thread uniting the Asian world, from India to South-East Asia and through Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan.
Early Buddhist Architecture in Context
Title | Early Buddhist Architecture in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Akira Shimada |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2012-11-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004233261 |
Since the dramatic discovery and tragic destruction of the monument in the 19th century, the Amarāvatī stūpa in the south-east Deccan has attracted many scholars but has also left many unanswered questions. Akira Shimada's Early Buddhist Architecture in Context provides an updated and comprehensive chronology of the stūpa and its architectural development based on the latest sculptural, epigraphic and numismatic evidence combined with the survey of the early excavation records. It also examines the wider social milieu of the south-east Deccan by exploring archaeological, epigraphic and related textual evidence. These analyses reveal that the flowering of the stūpa was not a simple accomplishment of the powerful Sātavāhana dynasty, but was the result of the long-term development of urbanization of this region between ca. 200 BCE-250 CE.
Handbuch der Orientalistik
Title | Handbuch der Orientalistik PDF eBook |
Author | Kurt A. Behrendt |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9789004135956 |
Kurt Behrendt in this book for the first time and convincingly offers a description of the development of 2nd century B.C.E. to 8th century C.E. Buddhist sacred centers in ancient Gandhara, today northwest Pakistan.