From Local to Global: Papers in Asian History and Culture (Set of 3 Vols) - Hardcover

From Local To Global: Papers in Asian History and Culture : Prof. A K Narain Commemoration Volume (3 Vols-Set)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: I. History and Culture : Region, Sources, Connections and Interactions: Preface. 1. The Greek contacts of Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka and their relevance to Mauryan and Buddhist chronology/Joe Cribb. 2. Greek minting in bactria: engravers, dies and coin production/John S. Deyell. 3. Are Pandava Brothers Jaina or non-Jaina? An unprecedented explanation by Acarya Hemacandra/Padmanabh S. Jaini. 4. Early historic archaeology of Varanasi: ceramics as culture identity/Vidula Jayaswal. 5. Notes on the Greek text of the Graeco-Aramaic Billingual inscription from Kandahar/Jeffrey D. Lerner. 6. Heritage studies as a bridge across continents/K. Paddayya. 7. The Bhadresvara linkage between Indian and Southeast Asia/Sachchidanand Sahai. 8. Names and traditions of Pandharpur/Erik Reenberg Sand. 9. Bath types and their significance/J.P. Singh. 10. Mother Goddess in early medieval eastern India-the gender perspective/Rajiva Kumar Sinha. 11. India and China the civilization twins: a conversation with A.K. Narain about Indian and China via telepath-net. Chindia/Tan Chung. 12. The Vikramankadeva-carita of Bilhana: texts and epigraphs in the reading of a biography/Romila Thapar. 13. Indigenous iron technology of India: issues, perspectives and prospects/Vibha Tripathi. 14. Economic exchange system in Gupta period/Amit Kumar Upadhyay. 15. Avestan Hind and India/T.P. Verma. 16. "Lord of the Eastern and Western Oceans": unguents, politics and the Indian Ocean Trade in Medieval South India/Philip B. Wagoner. Vol. II: Perspectives in Asian Art and Aesthetics: 17. Matsya Avatarathe fish incarnation of Visnu: observations on some stone images from Chamba Himachal Pradesh/Ashvini Agrawal. 18. Astro-biographies of Sakyamuni and the great renunciation in Gandharan art/Henry Albery. 19. Gestures and postures in the Buddhist art of Central Asia/Chhaya Bhattacharya-Haesner. 20. The emotional dimension of the Nature of the world (lokasya svabhava) and the meaning of Sahrdaya/M. Krzysztof Byrski. 21. Alchi: hints at a possible trans-Karakorum cultural exchange/Gerald Kozicz and Melanie Mahlzahn. 22. A Pseudo-inscription attached to a teachers portrait inside a stupa at site-plan of the Buddhist Sangharama at Sahri-Bahlol, Gandhara/Chongfeng Li. 23. Discovery and documentation of the Buddhist sacred site of Nimogram (Swat, Pakistan) and illustrative notes/Joan A. Raducha. 24. Dimensions of Indian art heritage and contributions of Jainism and Buddhism/D.N. Tripathi. 25. The treasure garden: a survival of ancient landscape architecture/Gautama V. Vajracharya. 26. The six essentials (Liu Yao) of Chinese painting/Charles Willemen. 27. A Bizarre stody about two kings identification of some Andhra Reliefs scenes from the Sutasoma-Saudas narrative/Monika Zin. Vol. III: Probing into Buddhism in India and Abroad: 28. Memento Mori: recollection of death in early Buddhist meditation/Analayo. 29. Two cases of assimilation: the Tathagatagarbha and Prajnaparamita literarure in Daoxin's Chan teachings/A.W. Barber. 30. Determining the corpus of South Asian female-authored Buddhist texts of the ninth to the Eleventh centuries/Ulrich Timme Kragh. 31. Sattha Buddha: a real teacher and his teaching that liberate/Lalji Shravak. 32. The incorporation of indigenous Caitya cult into Buddhism: sacred tree, Pillar, relic, stupa, place, and Emblem/Akira Miyaji. 33. Origins of the Mahayana: One more tentative probing with the help of gleanings from the Kasyapaparivarta/Bhikkhu Pasadika. 34. A special gift: Manicuda's sacrifice and its religious significance/Yuan Ren. 35. Buddhism as an indigenous Indian tradition: A.K. Narain's contention against the Misnomer Heterodoxy/C.D. Sebastian. Artikel-Nr. 122409

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