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Author : Senarat Paranavitana
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004054554
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Senarat Paranavitana Commemoration Volume written by Senarat Paranavitana and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1978 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J E Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004646477
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Senarat Paranavitana Commemoration Volume written by J E Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a frontispiece, 58 figures and 15 plates
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900419388X
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Three offers 1643 annotated records on publications regarding the art and archaeology of South Asia, Central Asia and Tibet selected from the ABIA Index database at www.abia.net which were published between 2002 and 2007.
Author : Alastair Gornall
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787355152
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rewriting Buddhism written by Alastair Gornall and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not born of political stability, as is often thought, but rather of the social, economic and political chaos brought about by invasions and civil wars. Faced with unprecedented uncertainty, the monastic community sought greater political autonomy, styled itself as royal court, and undertook a series of reforms, most notably, a purification and unification in 1165 during the reign of Parakramabahu I. He describes how central to the process of reform was the production of new forms of Pali literature, which helped create a new conceptual and social coherence within the reformed community; one that served to preserve and protect their religious tradition while also expanding its reach among the more fragmented and localized elites of the period.
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861718313
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Divine Stories written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine Stories is the inaugural volume in a landmark translation series devoted to making the wealth of classical Indian Buddhism accessible to modern readers. The stories here, among the first texts to be inscribed by Buddhists, highlight the moral economy of karma, illustrating how gestures of faith, especially offerings, can bring the reward of future happiness and ultimate liberation. Originally contained in the Divyavadana, an enormous compendium of Sanskrit Buddhist narratives from the early Common Era, the stories in this collection express the moral and ethical impulses of Indian Buddhist thought and are a testament to the historical and social power of narrative. Long believed by followers to be the actual words of the Buddha himself, these divine stories are without a doubt some of the most influential stories in the history of Buddhism.
Author : J. E. Van Lohuizen-De Leeuw
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004059962
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book South Asian Archaeology 1975 written by J. E. Van Lohuizen-De Leeuw and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James C. Harle
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300062175
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent written by James C. Harle and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years' research and first-hand knowledge of the area have enabled the author to trace the cultural contacts which have contributed to the rich mosaic of sculpture, temples, mosques, and painting that have gone towards the creation of one of the great civilizations of the world.
Author : Oskar von Hinüber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110814986
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Pali Literature written by Oskar von Hinüber and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook surveys the whole of Pali Theravada Buddhist literature (Ceylon, South East Asia). It reviews previous research in the field, and then concentrates on new methodological approaches and a treatment of later Pali literature (after the twelfth century).
Author : Nilan Cooray
Publisher : TU Delft
ISBN 13 : 148003097X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sigiriya Royal Gardens written by Nilan Cooray and published by TU Delft. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides the efforts that are of a descriptive and celebrative nature, studies related to Sri Lanka's historical built heritage largely view material remains in historical, sociological, socio-historical and semiological perspectives. There is hardly any serious attempt to view such material remains from a technical-analytical approach to understand the compositional aspects of their design. The 5th century AC royal complex at Sigiriya is no exception in this regard. The enormous wealth of information and the material remains unearthed during more than 100 years of field-based research by several generations of archaeologists provide an ideal opportunity for such analysis. The Sigiriya Royal Gardens fills the gap in research related to Sri Lanka's historical built heritage in general, and to Sigiriya in particular. Therefore, the present research attempts to read Sigiriya as a landscape architectonic design to expose its architectonic composition and design instruments.
Author : Douglas E. Haynes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520075856
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contesting Power written by Douglas E. Haynes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riots, rebellions, and revolutions have always captured our attention. But moments of upheaval do not contrast as strongly with "normal" times as many social historians, sociologists, and political scientists have assumed. Offering examples from South Asia, these essays examine subtle forms of the "everyday resistance" and varieties of the everyday use of power that mark the patterns of ordinary life in the region. These essays are part of a larger effort to understand the history of subordination in India. They focus on peasants and urban laborers, courtesans and merchants, sometimes employing unconventional sources and methods. By depicting a rich variety of non-confrontational forms of resistance and contestatory behaviors, the authors challenge our usual assumptions about the overt nature of resistance to dominant powerholders. Taken together, the essays suggest that we must consider a much wider range of socio-cultural practices if we wish to understand how the world of dominated groups is constrained, modified, and conditioned by power relations. Identifying the "everydayness" of resistance in social life thus reveals a social structure formed from a constellation of contradictory and contestatory processes, rather than a seamless, functional whole. At the same time, struggle is portrayed as something that is constantly being conditioned by the structures of social and political power. As the editors note, "neither domination nor resistance is autonomous; the two are entangled together so that it becomes difficult to analyze one without discussing the effects of the other".
