Buddhist Landscapes in Central India : Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religious and Social Change, C. Third Century BC to Fifth Century AD.

• Tác giả: Julia Shaw
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1611323444
• ISBN-10: 1611323452
• ISBN-13: 978-1611323443
• ISBN-13: 978-1611323450
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 005.4 Systems programming and programs
• Thông tin xuất bản: Walnut Creek : Chicago : Left Coast Press, Incorporated Chicago Distribution Center [distributor] Aug. 2013
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (360 pages) : , illustrations.
• Bộ sưu tập: Công nghệ thông tin
• ID: 275066
• Chủ đề: 1. Buddhist art and symbolism--India; 2. Excavations (Archaeology)--India

Tóm tắt

Annotation The "monumental bias" of Buddhist archaeology has hampered our understanding of the socio-religious mechanisms that enabled early Buddhist monks to establish themselves in new areas. To articulate these relationships, Shaw presents here the first integrated study of settlement archaeology and Buddhist history, carried out in the area around Sanchi, a Central Indian UNESCO World Heritage site. Her comprehensive, data-rich, and heavily illustrated work provides an archaeological basis for assessing theories regarding the dialectical relationship between Buddhism and surrounding lay populations. It also sheds light on the role of the introduction of Buddhism in changing settlement patterns. This volume was originally published in 2007 by the British Association of South Asian Studies.