Sacred Traces: British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia is published in the series HISTORIE... more Sacred Traces: British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia is published in the series HISTORIES OF VISION edited by Caroline van Eck, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam IN THE SAME SERIES Jorg Breu the Elder Art, culture and belief in Reformation Augsburg Andrew Morrall Now ...
PREFACE INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK OLIVELLE, JANICE LEOSHKO, AND HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY PROLEGOMENA 1. ... more PREFACE INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK OLIVELLE, JANICE LEOSHKO, AND HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY PROLEGOMENA 1. ASOKA: A RETROSPECTIVE BY ROMILA THAPAR 2. THE LANGUAGE OF COMPOSITION AND TRANSMISSION OF THE ASOKAN INSCRIPTIONS BY R.K. NORMAN PART I: EMERGENCE OF ASOKAN STUDIES 3. ARCHAEOLOGY AND ASOKA: DEFINING THE EMPIRE BY HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY 4. FROM KAUTILYA TO KOSAMBI AND BEYOND BY SHAILENDRA BHANDARE 5. BHAGWANLAL INDRAJ'S PIONEERING CONTRIBUTION TO ASOKAN STUDIES BY VIRCHAND DHARAMSEY PART II: ASOKA AND HIS TIMES 6. ASOKA'S INSCRIPTIONS AS TEXT AND IDEOLOGY BY PATRICK OLIVELLE 7. THE COMPOSITION OF ASOKA'S PILLAR EDICT SERIES BY HERMAN TIEKEN 8. LINGUISTIC EXPERIMENTS: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN ASOKAN INSCRIPTIONS AND EARLY BUDDHIST TEXTS BY OSKAR VON HINUBER 9. THE FATE OF ASOKA'S DONATIONS AT LUMBINI BY HARRY FALK 10. THE YONA ERA AND THE END OF THE MAURYA DYNASTY: IS THERE A CONNECTION? BY RICHARD SALOMON 11. MAURYAN PILLARS OF THE MIDDLE GANGA PLAIN IN THE LIGHT OF ARCHAEO...
Scholarship on the art history of Tibet, indeed on that of the Himalayas, began in earnest only i... more Scholarship on the art history of Tibet, indeed on that of the Himalayas, began in earnest only in the 1960s. At this time some of the first really significant exhibitions of such material occurred. This attention to Himalayan art helped start new collectors; for instance, one of ...
Aspects symboliques et religieux de l'art jaina, religion consideree comme la plus ascetique ... more Aspects symboliques et religieux de l'art jaina, religion consideree comme la plus ascetique des doctrines originaires de l'Inde.
As an art historian, I was first struck by the richness of the Buddhist details used by Kipling i... more As an art historian, I was first struck by the richness of the Buddhist details used by Kipling in his novel Kim when I noticed the very specific reference to a very unusual image in the Lahore Museum. It was described as the one which causes a lama’s outcry at the beginning of the novel that narrates the amazing adventures of Kimball O’Hara, a boy of Irish parents bom in India and orphaned at a young age. After they meet, Kim takes the lama to visit the Wonder House, as the Lahore Museum was called by natives; the lama (the name for a Tibetan Buddhist teacher) had come to India on a religious quest. As Kipling writes in Kim about the lama’s visit to this museum:
... I. Leoshko) Yijing, who visited India later in the seventh century, mentions Telhara &#x2... more ... I. Leoshko) Yijing, who visited India later in the seventh century, mentions Telhara 'where there resides a famous monk named Prajfiabhadra' (Dutt, 1962, p ... the sculpture was a recent acqui-sition by the Luzac firm in London and listed its provenance as Telhara (Rupam 1922, p ...
... I. Leoshko) Yijing, who visited India later in the seventh century, mentions Telhara &#x2... more ... I. Leoshko) Yijing, who visited India later in the seventh century, mentions Telhara 'where there resides a famous monk named Prajfiabhadra' (Dutt, 1962, p ... the sculpture was a recent acqui-sition by the Luzac firm in London and listed its provenance as Telhara (Rupam 1922, p ...
RefDoc, THE reference in scientific document supply / Refdoc, la référence en fourniture de docum... more RefDoc, THE reference in scientific document supply / Refdoc, la référence en fourniture de documents scientifiques ...
Sacred Traces: British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia is published in the series HISTORIE... more Sacred Traces: British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia is published in the series HISTORIES OF VISION edited by Caroline van Eck, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam IN THE SAME SERIES Jorg Breu the Elder Art, culture and belief in Reformation Augsburg Andrew Morrall Now ...
PREFACE INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK OLIVELLE, JANICE LEOSHKO, AND HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY PROLEGOMENA 1. ... more PREFACE INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK OLIVELLE, JANICE LEOSHKO, AND HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY PROLEGOMENA 1. ASOKA: A RETROSPECTIVE BY ROMILA THAPAR 2. THE LANGUAGE OF COMPOSITION AND TRANSMISSION OF THE ASOKAN INSCRIPTIONS BY R.K. NORMAN PART I: EMERGENCE OF ASOKAN STUDIES 3. ARCHAEOLOGY AND ASOKA: DEFINING THE EMPIRE BY HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY 4. FROM KAUTILYA TO KOSAMBI AND BEYOND BY SHAILENDRA BHANDARE 5. BHAGWANLAL INDRAJ'S PIONEERING CONTRIBUTION TO ASOKAN STUDIES BY VIRCHAND DHARAMSEY PART II: ASOKA AND HIS TIMES 6. ASOKA'S INSCRIPTIONS AS TEXT AND IDEOLOGY BY PATRICK OLIVELLE 7. THE COMPOSITION OF ASOKA'S PILLAR EDICT SERIES BY HERMAN TIEKEN 8. LINGUISTIC EXPERIMENTS: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN ASOKAN INSCRIPTIONS AND EARLY BUDDHIST TEXTS BY OSKAR VON HINUBER 9. THE FATE OF ASOKA'S DONATIONS AT LUMBINI BY HARRY FALK 10. THE YONA ERA AND THE END OF THE MAURYA DYNASTY: IS THERE A CONNECTION? BY RICHARD SALOMON 11. MAURYAN PILLARS OF THE MIDDLE GANGA PLAIN IN THE LIGHT OF ARCHAEO...
Scholarship on the art history of Tibet, indeed on that of the Himalayas, began in earnest only i... more Scholarship on the art history of Tibet, indeed on that of the Himalayas, began in earnest only in the 1960s. At this time some of the first really significant exhibitions of such material occurred. This attention to Himalayan art helped start new collectors; for instance, one of ...
Aspects symboliques et religieux de l'art jaina, religion consideree comme la plus ascetique ... more Aspects symboliques et religieux de l'art jaina, religion consideree comme la plus ascetique des doctrines originaires de l'Inde.
As an art historian, I was first struck by the richness of the Buddhist details used by Kipling i... more As an art historian, I was first struck by the richness of the Buddhist details used by Kipling in his novel Kim when I noticed the very specific reference to a very unusual image in the Lahore Museum. It was described as the one which causes a lama’s outcry at the beginning of the novel that narrates the amazing adventures of Kimball O’Hara, a boy of Irish parents bom in India and orphaned at a young age. After they meet, Kim takes the lama to visit the Wonder House, as the Lahore Museum was called by natives; the lama (the name for a Tibetan Buddhist teacher) had come to India on a religious quest. As Kipling writes in Kim about the lama’s visit to this museum:
... I. Leoshko) Yijing, who visited India later in the seventh century, mentions Telhara &#x2... more ... I. Leoshko) Yijing, who visited India later in the seventh century, mentions Telhara 'where there resides a famous monk named Prajfiabhadra' (Dutt, 1962, p ... the sculpture was a recent acqui-sition by the Luzac firm in London and listed its provenance as Telhara (Rupam 1922, p ...
... I. Leoshko) Yijing, who visited India later in the seventh century, mentions Telhara &#x2... more ... I. Leoshko) Yijing, who visited India later in the seventh century, mentions Telhara 'where there resides a famous monk named Prajfiabhadra' (Dutt, 1962, p ... the sculpture was a recent acqui-sition by the Luzac firm in London and listed its provenance as Telhara (Rupam 1922, p ...
RefDoc, THE reference in scientific document supply / Refdoc, la référence en fourniture de docum... more RefDoc, THE reference in scientific document supply / Refdoc, la référence en fourniture de documents scientifiques ...
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