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23.0 x 23.0cms 136pp colour illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: origins of the Buddha image; Tibetan Buddhist iconography; classification of the Thangkas; technique of Thangka painting; the painter''s world; the evolution of style.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, inside cover has a blank label affixed to it, else pages clean and unmarked. Over the last couple of decades, B.R. Ambedkar has come to be idolized as no other political leader has. His statue is one of the largest in the Parliament complex. Political parties have reaped rich electoral dividends riding on his name. A decades-old cartoon of him in a textbook rocked Parliament for days recently, causing parties across the political spectrum to run for cover and call for the withdrawal of the 'offending' cartoon. In Worshipping False Gods, Arun Shourie employs his scholarly rigour to cast a critical look at the legend of Ambedkar. With his distinctive eye for detail, Shourie delves into archival records to ask pertinent questions: Did Ambedkar coordinate his opposition to the freedom struggle with the British? How does his approach to social change contrast with that of Mahatma Gandhi's? Did the Constitution spring from him or did it grow as a dynamic living organism? Passionately argued and based on a mountain of facts that it presents, Worshipping False Gods compels us to go behind the myths on which discourse is built in India today.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents Foreword. Introduction. 1. Aspects of the two colossal Buddhas at Bamiyan/Marylin M. Rhie. 2. Bamiyan and the International Gandhara Tradition/Ronald M. Bernier. 3. Buddhism in Bamiyan/S.K. Pathak. 4. The Buddhas of Bamiyan Symbols of Afghanistan's Forlorn Past/Juliette (Jet) van Krieken Pieters. 5. Buddhist Temples beyond the Great Wall/Nandana Chutiwongs. 6. Empress Wu Maitreya and Xuanzang/Patricia Karetzky. 7. The Etymology of the Word Bamiyan and Hsuan tsang/Lokesh Chandra. 8. The folkloristic aspects of the characters in the novel Journey to the West /Priyadarsi Mukherji. 9. India and Afghanistan Past present and future/B.B. Lal. 10. India's Northwestern cultural area and its impact in China/Charles Willemen. 11. Legendary Xuanzang Some of His narratives reported in Central Asian Art/Chhaya Bhattacharya Haesner. 12. Mahayana and Hinayana in Central Asian Buddhist History according to Hsuan tsang and other evidence/Mariko Namba Walter. 13. Mahayana Vajrayana Buddhism and Buddhist deities from Xinjiang/Radha Banerjee. 14. A Sino Sanskritic linguistic fragment from Tung Huang/Saroj Kumar Chaudhuri. 15. Sutras translated by Xuanzang and Dunhuang wall paintings/Fan Jinshi. 16. The syncretic symbolism of the cosmic Buddhas of Bamiyan Afghanistan/Mary Storm. 17. Suye and the journey to the West/Grigory Semenov. 18. The thirteenth century restoration of Bodhgaya/W.B. Douglas. 19. Xuanzang's contribution to Chinese Buddhism/Malati J. Shendge. 20. Xuanzang's Stay at Nalanda as depicted in the Scroll on the Tripitaka Master Xuanzang /Ineke Van Put. Note on contributors. China as we know is a great civilization and Xuanzang's (who is popularly known as Hsuan tsang) visit to India was a great event. The noted Chinese traveller and Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang reached India in AD 630 having undertaken arduous journey across Central Asia. A Chinese emperor called him the jewel of the empire. Nearly fourteen years of his life (from AD 630 to AD 644) were spent visiting Buddhist temples and monasteries cities and places of interest in the Indian subcontinent. He was a keen observer of men and affairs. Apart from being a devout monk he has left behind a fascinating and authentic account of India's history geography economy and society of the times when King Harsha (AD 606 47) ruled over Northern India. This volume contains articles on the life and achievement of Xuanzang. Dharmamaster Xuanzang came to India particularly in search of Buddhist texts which were not available in China. He studied his favourite text Yogacarabhumisastra under the famous teacher Shilabhadra of Nalanda. He was a great recorder of historical sites of the Silk Route. His description of the Silk Route countries in Afghanistan and Gandhara are valuable for the political and cultural history of these lands. The study of Bamiyan monasteries and Colossal Buddhas have inspired Art historians to make a thorough study of the cultural history of Afghanistan. The articles in this present volume show through wide range of studies not only Xuanzang's love and knowledge of Buddhism but only an account of various countries and their cultural heritage. 292 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. On the trail of Buddhism journey to the East is a unique sojourn in search of the spiritual, philosophical, and cultural linkages that bind India to the East Asian civilisations. From the wandering monks of Asia to the temples and monasteries they visited; from the statues and frescoes in grottoes to those in the museums; from the diverse ethnicities of the people to their common gods and goddesses book explores the ancient India , beautifully preserved in the traditions, art, and architecture of China, as also in Mongolia, Korea and Japan, to where it spread from China.

Zustand: New. pp. 192.

Hardbound. Zustand: New. Part.From the preface: "The last volume 12 of the Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary appeared in 1961. The twelve volumes ran into 2560 pages and have since been reprinted in Japan in compact editions that guide Buddhologists through the vast spaces of Tibetan classical texts, exegetical works and an immense literature that has been written on sublime subjects. As the twelve volumes were in print, I had card-indexed an alphabetised a number of texts that were available both in Sanskrit and Tibetan. The cards were finally written down for the press by the beginning of the year 1964. In 1963 my father Prof. Raghu Vira passed away in a car crash, leaving me disarrayed in darkness. The great mind was gone and I sought construction from within. Things came and went, and plucked the thyme of my dreams. 328 pp.

Zustand: New. pp. xx + 291.

Zustand: New. pp. 162.

Zustand: New. pp. viii + 132 Illus.

Zustand: Neuf.

Zustand: Used - Very Good. Cloth, dj. In acetate cover. Minor shelf wear overall. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good.

Zustand: Used - Like New. 1995. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Dj. is fine. Fine.

Zustand: New. pp. xiv + 269.

Zustand: New. pp. 246 Illus.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Preface. 1. Central Asia as the Path of Sutras. 2. Silk Route or Sutra Route. 3. Sanskrit was the Mind of the Silk Route. 4. Sanskrit on the Silk Route. 5. Kashmir and Central Asia in the First Millennium. 6. Qumtura Mural of Bodhisattva Siddhartha at School. 7. Vajravarahi as the Protectress of Khotan. 8. Mural of Hariti from Dandan-Uiliq. 9. Dandan-Uiliq Panels for the Divine Protection of Khotan. 10. Suvarna bhasottama as the Security of Khotan. 11. The Naya-Mandala in Khotan. 12. Panel with a Horse and a Camel from Khotan. 13. Bhumiputra and Khotan. 14. Sanskrit Culture in Turkish. 15. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan. 16. Travels to Western Central Asia. 17. Rocana of the Avatamsaka from Balawaste. 18. Asoka and Khotan. 19. Notes on the Buddhist Iconography of Central Asia. 20. Chronological Footholds of Khotanese History. Index. This book breaks new ground in the perception of Central Asian history by a comparison of the archaeological evidence with Tibetan and Chinese historiographic sources as well as Sanskrit texts which have rarely been used. It narrates Indian references to Central Asian peoples in the Rigveda, Brahmanas, Puranas, Palisuttas and Buddhist Sanskrit works. It was not merely the Silk Route, but primarily the Sutra Route. Sanskrit was the mind of this Route. It lived as long as Buddhism flourished. Jade and silk were the main trading items: the influence of sericulture on iconography has been discussed. Special relations of Khotan and Kashmir, their impact on the new technology of silk production and transmission of silk production from Khotan (Serindia of Procopius) to Byzantine clarify the word Serº, serikes>silk. The defence of settled kingdoms threatened by nomadic onslaughts gave rise to military cantonments, and the emergence of guardian deities named in the ancient annals which have provided the correct nomenclature of deities shown on the panels. The heavenly mandate of the only political Sutra, the Sutra of Golden Light, has been brought out for the first time. The primacy of the sons of the soil (bhumiputra) in the Sa.nu legend has been explained in its precise political context. Hindu deities, the Rocana of Balawaste to RoshanaDaibutsu of Nara in Japan, Buddhist remains in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other modern countries of western Central Asia provide new breakthroughs. This work resurrects the resonances of culture, defence, sericulture, political doctrine of bhumiputra (alive to this day in Malaysia), painting, philosophy across the deep sands and thence to its flowering in the civilizations of China, Korea and Japan.

Zustand: New. pp. ix + 438.

Zustand: New. pp. 331.