New Light on Central Asian Art and Iconography
Author: Priyatosh Banerjee
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of research papers.
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Central Asian Art
Author: Priyatosh Banerjee
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuddhism in Central Asia I
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-01-13
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9004417737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Khitan) will be explored in a systematic way. The first volume Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage is based on the start-up conference held on May 23rd–25th, 2018, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) and focuses on the first two of altogether six thematic topics to be dealt with in the project, namely on “patronage and legitimation strategy” as well as "sacred space and pilgrimage."
Uygur Patronage in Dunhuang
Author: Lilla Russell-Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9047415698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is about the long-neglected, but decisive influence of Uygur patrons on Dunhuang art in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Through an insightful introduction to the hitherto little-known early history and art of the Uygurs, the author explains the social and political forces that shaped the taste of Uygur patrons. The cultural and political effects of Sino-Uygur political marriages are examined in the larger context of the role of high-ranking women in medieval art patronage. Careful study of the iconography, technique and style sheds new light on important paintings in the collection of the British Museum in London, and the Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet, in Paris, and through comparative analysis the importance of regional art centres in medieval China and Central Asia is explored. Richly illustrated with line drawings, as well as colour and black-and-white plates.
Early Buddhist Narrative Art
Author: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780761816713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky, while demonstrating the various evolutions that the image of the Buddha underwent, maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradition in the cultures of India, Central Asia, China and Japan. The author, while focusing on the visual representation of the Buddhist narrative, goes into some detail regarding the importance of scriptures in each society, and how the written tradition informed the pictorial. Over seventy photos fill this book, which will be of interest to scholars of art history, Eastern religion and Buddhism in particular.
Studies in Manichaean Literature and Art
Author: Manfred Heuser
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9004440437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume consists of two sections, written by the two authors. The first section contains a study by Manfred Heuser on The Manichaean Myth According to Coptic Sources. This is the first systematic presentation of the basic myth as reflected in Coptic material. The second part is a collection of essays on Manichaeism by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. The essays are concerned, inter alia, with Manichaean art and symbolism, including newly found examples of Manichaean art from Central Asia.
Across the Himalayan Gap
Author: Tan Chung
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Published: 1998-12
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9788121206174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of 40 Indian authors that parades various Indian perspectives on China, her civilization, history, society and development. It is a fruition of a project launched by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) where Sino-Indian studies is a special window. A scholarly work.
New Light on Manichaeism
Author: Jason BeDuhn
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9004172858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Light on Manichaeism provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion's North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions from the leading scholars in the field, offering new reconstructions of Manichaean literary and artistic productions, and innovative analyses of the religious, social, and political dynamics that shaped the rise and fall of this world religion.
Silk for the Vikings
Author: Marianne Vedeler
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2014-05-30
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1782972153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking burial find ever discovered, the other silk finds from high status graves in Scandinavia are discussed along with an introduction to the techniques used to produce raw silk and fabrics. Later chapters concentrate on trade and exchange, considering the role of silk items both as trade objects and precious gifts, and in the light of coin finds. The main trade routes of silk to Scandinavia along the Russian rivers, and comparable Russian finds are described and the production and regulation of silk in Persia, early Islamic production areas and the Byzantine Empire discussed. The final chapter considers silk as a social actor in various contexts in Viking societies compared to the Christian west.
