The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences

The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences
Title The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences PDF eBook
Author John Siudmak
Publisher BRILL
Pages 546
Release 2013-04-15
Genre Art
ISBN 9004248323

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The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences is primarily based on the study of the largely unpublished corpus of sculpture, mostly of stone, in the Sri Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar, and of other examples in situ elsewhere in the valley. The disparate nature and fragmentary condition of these sculptures as well as their artistic and iconographical influences have for long defied accurate analysis. The method used in the classification of these sculptures is based on close analysis of their style concentrating on recurring features such as facial and physical typology, modelling, dress and ornamentation. Comparisons are made with other examples of Kashmir bronze, ivory and stone sculpture in private and public collections both within India and abroad.

Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries)

Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries)
Title Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 351
Release 2015-10-05
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004307435

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The interdisciplinary volume Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), edited by Carmen Meinert, offers a new transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It looks at the region as an integrated (religious) whole rather than from the perspective of fragmented sub-disciplines and analyses the spread of Buddhism as a driving force in a societal and cultural change of pan-Asian importance. One particular dimension of this ‘Buddhist globalisation’ was the rise of local forms of Buddhism. This volume explores Buddhist localisations through manuscripts and material culture in the multiethnic oases of the Tarim basin, the Transhimalyan region of Zangskar, Ladakh and Kashmir and the Western Tibetan Kingdom of Purang-Guge. Contributors are: Kazuo Kano, Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Rob Linrothe, Linda Lojda, Carmen Meinert, Henrik H. Sørensen, Monica Strinu, Gertraud Taenzer, Sam van Schaik, and Jens Wilkens.

Handbuch Der Orientalistik

Handbuch Der Orientalistik
Title Handbuch Der Orientalistik PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre Buddhist sculpture
ISBN 9789004243156

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The Making of Early Kashmir

The Making of Early Kashmir
Title The Making of Early Kashmir PDF eBook
Author Muhammad Ashraf Wani
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 358
Release 2023-02-22
Genre History
ISBN 100083655X

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This is the first full-length history of early Kashmir locating it beyond its regional context, from pre-history to the thirteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources—including conventional archaeological and literary sources, as well as non-conventional sources like philology, toponym and surnames—it presents a connected history of early Kashmir over the longue duree. It challenges tendencies towards nationalist historiographies of the region by situating it in the context of the shared histories of humanity. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, anthropology and South Asian studies.

The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture of Kashmir (Early 14th –18th Century)

The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture of Kashmir (Early 14th –18th Century)
Title The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture of Kashmir (Early 14th –18th Century) PDF eBook
Author Hakim Sameer Hamdani
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 216
Release 2021-03-30
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1000365247

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This book traces the historical identity of Kashmir within the context of Islamic religious architecture between early fourteenth and mid-eighteenth century. It presents a framework of syncretism within which the understanding of this architectural tradition acquires new dimensions and possibilities in the region. In a first, the volume provides a detailed overview of the origin and development of Islamic sacred architecture while contextualizing it within the history of Islam in Kashmir. Covering the entirety of Muslim rule in the region, the book throws light on Islamic religious architecture introduced with the establishment of the Muslim Sultanate in the early fourteenth century, and focuses on both monumental and vernacular architecture. It examines the establishment of new styles in architecture, including ideas, materials and crafts introduced by non-Kashmiri missionaries in the late-fourteenth to fifteenth century. Further, it discusses how the Mughals viewed Kashmir and embellished the land with their architectural undertakings, coupled with encounters between Kashmir’s native culture, with its identity and influences introduced by Sufis arriving from the medieval Persianate world. The book also highlights the transition of the traditional architecture to a pan-Islamic image in the post-Independence period. With its rich illustrations, photographs and drawings, this book will interest students, researchers, and professionals in architecture studies, cultural and heritage studies, visual and art history, religion, Islamic studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful to professional architecture institutes, public libraries, museums, cultural and heritage bodies as well as the general reader interested in the architectural and cultural history of South Asia.

The Making of Early Kashmir

The Making of Early Kashmir
Title The Making of Early Kashmir PDF eBook
Author Shonaleeka Kaul
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 200
Release 2018-01-08
Genre Religion
ISBN 019909330X

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What is history? How does a land become a homeland? How are cultural identities formed? The Making of Early Kashmir explores these questions in relation to the birth of Kashmir and the discursive and material practices that shaped it up to the 12th century CE. Reinterpreting the first work of Kashmiri history, Kalhana’s Rajatarangini, this book argues that the text was history not despite being traditional Sanskrit poetry but because of it. It elaborated a poetics of place, implicating Kashmir’s sacred geography, a stringent critique of local politics, and a regional selfhood that transcended the limits of vernacularism.Combined with longue durée testimonies from art, material culture, script, and linguistics, this book jettisons the image of an isolated and insular Kashmir. It proposes a cultural formation that straddled the Western Himalayas and the Indic plains with Kashmir as the pivot. This is the story of the connected histories of the region and the rest of India.

Around Abhinavagupta

Around Abhinavagupta
Title Around Abhinavagupta PDF eBook
Author Eli Franco
Publisher LIT Verlag Münster
Pages 684
Release 2016
Genre History
ISBN 3643906978

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Abhinavagupta is undoubtedly the most famous Kashmirian medieval intellectual: his decisive contributions to Indian aesthetics, Saiva theology, and metaphysics, and to the philosophy of the subtle and original Pratyabhijna system, are well known. Yet so far his works have often been studied without fully taking into account the specific historical, social, artistic, religious, and philosophical context in which they are embedded. The purpose of this book is to show that this intellectual background is no less exceptional than Abhinavagupta himself. (Series: Leipzig Studies on the Culture and History of South and Central Asia / Leipziger Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte Sud- und Zentralasiens, Vol. 6) [Subject: History, Abhinavagupta, India Studies, Religious Studies]