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Buddhist Art in Asia

Author Name: A.S. Bhalla | Format: Paperback | Genre : Arts, Photography & Design | Other Details
Buddhism, which originated in India in the sixth century BC, faded into oblivion by the thirteenth century. However, it spread to other countries in Asia, and along with it, Buddhist art. The book investigates how representations of Buddhism and Buddhist art evolved between regions and between epochs. From India to Thailand and Burma (Myanmar) and eventually to China, the religion grew in influence only to die and thrive again in different forms. With it grew different forms of Buddhist art (architecture, sculpture and painting) from Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka in South Asia to Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand in Southeast Asia and China, Japan and South Korea in East Asia. A number of issues such as the survival of Buddhism despite onslaughts of Islam and Hinduism, royal patronage of Buddhist art and the role of monks (normally mendicants surviving on alms) in building impressive monasteries and cave temples are discussed in the shadows of Buddhist architecture, murals and sculpture. The book contains rich illustrations of temples, monasteries and stupas as well as paintings and sculptures from a number of holy Buddhist sites including Ajanta, Amaravati, Bharhut, Bodhgaya, Ellora, Karle, Sanchi and Sarnath in India, Sirigiya in Sri Lanka, Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and Banteay Srei in Cambodia, Ayutthaya and Bangkok in Thailand, Dali in China and Kamakura and Nikko Toshugo in Japan.
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A.S. Bhalla

A.S. Bhalla is a former Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK. He has also held academic positions at Oxford, Yale and Manchester Universities. His other recent publications include Imperial India: A Pictorial History (Austin Macauley and Norton Press, 2018); Royal Tombs of India: 13th to 18th Century (Mapin, 2009); Glimpses of Medieval Switzerland (Austin Macauley, 2015); Monuments, Power and Poverty in India: From Ashoka to the Raj (I.B. Tauris, 2015; First South Asian Paperback edition, 2016). He has written extensively on various other subjects. He is the (co) author of and Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India (Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2013, 2017); Poverty among Immigrant Children in Europe (PalgraveMacmillan, 2009); Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World (PalgraveMacmillan, 1999, 2004); Globalization, Growth and Marginalization (Macmillan, 1998) Facing the Technological Challenge (Macmillan, 1996); and Uneven Development in the Third World (Macmillan, 1992, 1995) among other publications.
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