Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stūpa at Amarāvatī (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE)
Akira Shimada
Akira Shimada's book is a welcome and timely addition to the nearly two centuries of research on the Amaravati Mahastupa (great stupa), and a more recent but expanding literature on the archaeology of early historic South Indian Buddhism. The study of this remarkable Buddhist monument presents a rather unique case for archaeologists, epigraphers, and social, religious, and art historians. Once a massive and beautifully adorned stupa, built and maintained by generations of early South Indian Buddhists, it was abandoned sometime during the fourteenth century a.d.
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Año:
2013
Editorial:
Brill
Idioma:
english
ISBN 10:
9004233261
ISBN 13:
9789004233263
Serie:
Brill's Indological Library 43
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PDF, 7.72 MB
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english, 2013