The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion: 34 (Brill's Indological Library, 34) - Hardcover

Brancaccio, Pia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004185259 ISBN 13: 9789004185258

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2010

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Book by Pia Brancaccio

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Críticas:

'The title of this superb volume does not fully prepare the reader for its broad scope of relevance well beyond the site of Aurangabad for an understanding of Indian art, religious communities, and socio-economic history spanning eight hundred years (...) Pia Brancaccio not only provides a much-needed focused study, but she also follows the ramifications of the issues that arise from her examination of the site to lead the reader to international trade communities in Africa, Buddhist pilgrimage routes in China, related monasteries in Gandhara, and temples of the Pasupata sect of Saivism, to name but a few.(...) When she takes the site at its own terms, (...) Brancaccio meets the challenge and turns a bright light onto some of the most difficult passages of India's art history while offering cogent explanations to some of the toughest problems in the field.'
Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, San Diego Museum of Art, CAA.REVIEWS, 2012

Reseña del editor:

Drawing on a large corpus of cross-disciplinary evidence, this book sheds light on the life of the Aurangabad caves and offers new interpretations on the development of Buddhist art and practice in the region, from the diffusion of early rock-cut monasteries to the advent of Mahayana and the emergence of esoteric art and rituals.

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• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9004185259
• ISBN 13: 9789004185258
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332