Sacred landscapes in Asia : shared traditions, multiple histories / preface by Kapila Vatsyayan ; edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray
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- New Delhi : Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2007
- ix, 396 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- 817304726X
- 9788173047268
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Contributed articles emanating from two conferences held at India International Centre, New Delhi on April 26-27, 2004, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla on October 25-27, 2004; part of IIC-Asia Project.
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- Machine derived contents note: I. INTRODUCTION
- HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY
- II. AESTHETIC THEORIES UNDERLYING ASIAN
- PERFORMING ARTS
- KAPILA VATSYAYAN 19
- PART I. MONUMENTS: MULTILAYERED HISTORIES
- III. Sunya: Immanent and Transcendent: Investigating Meanings
- of Void Through Art's Space
- SUNG-MIN KIM 29
- IV. The Stapa: Symbolizing Religious Architecture in Asia
- HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY 63
- V. Merchants, Ghazis, and the Inception of an 'Islamic' Architecture
- in South Asia
- ALKA PATEL 81
- VI. Marks and Symbols of Professionals on Mughal Monuments
- SYED ALI NADEEM REZAVI 107
- VII. Spatial Organization of Paharpur Buddhist Establishment
- SANDRINE GILL 169
- VIII. A Study of Living Culture: Typo-morphology of Vernacular-
- traditional Houses in Kerala
- INDAH WID1ASTUTI 199
- IX. AvalokiteSvara as Continuing Theogony of Interiorization
- LOKESH CHANDRA 219
- X. The Flying Messenger
- KAPILA VATSYAYAN 225
- XI. The Saiva Pantheon in Indonesia:
- Acculturation/Assimilation/Convergence?
- NILIMA CHITGOPEKAR 239
- XII. Kila-Makara-Toranas: Javanese Expressions of a Shared Motif
- PARUL PANDYA DHAR 257
- PART III. NARRATIVES: MEANINGS AND REALIZATION
- XIII. Questioning Narrativity and Inscribed Labels: Buddhist Bharhut,
- Sannati, and Borobudur
- VIDYA DEHEJIA 28-5
- XIV. Understanding the Painted Jatakas in Ancient India and Sri Lanka
- M. SOMATHILAKE 309
- XV. Crown Jewels of Buddhist Art: Comparisons between Ajanta
- and Dunhuang
- CHANG WEN-LING 327
- XVI. A System of Knowledge Transmission: The Narrative in Indonesia
- (c. AD 700-900)
- MALINI SARAN 349
- XVII. A Comparative Study of the Wayang Kulit and the Tolpavakoothu
- Shadow Puppet Theatre
- I. NYOMAN SEDANA 373.
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