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Archives of Asian Art (2011) 61 (1): 61–89.
Published: 01 April 2011
... and monoliths exist at some forty-five sites, created by Buddhists, Hindus, and Jains over a span of a thousand years. And to those accustomed to the modern concept of finish, half of this vast range of rock-cut monuments appears incomplete. No doubt explanations revolving around singular historical circum...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (2): 181–216.
Published: 01 October 2019
... in the sacred sites of caṅkrama in Śrāvastī, Vārāṇasī, and Kauśāmbī, and which were, presumably, found near those locations. These specimens are not only the earliest inscribed pieces in the entire archaeological assemblage of freestanding upright Buddhist statues made in Mathurā, but they also traveled...
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., India, Xuanzang, remote sensing, GIS, DEM, Odantapuri
Introduction other prominent and sacred landmarks in the vicinity.6
The accounts of the Chinese travelers Faxian (337–422
s a Buddhist center...
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Archives of Asian Art (2019) 69 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Robert DeCaroli Abstract Visitors to early (second century bce –fifth century ce ) Buddhist monastic sites across South Asia encountered prominent figural images of nāga s, serpent-like beings who were believed to be closely connected to water and rainfall. Such images are commonly identified...
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Archives of Asian Art (2001) 52 (1): 63–82.
Published: 01 April 2001
... of certain image types.
Eastern India, in particular the area in the modern Indian
state of Bihar encompassing renowned Buddhist sites such
as Bodhgaya and Nalanda, is well recognized for its impor-
tance in Buddhist history.' Although many details of spe-
cific practices have been lost to us...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (1): 111–142.
Published: 01 April 2017
... Buddhist sites. Bhogavardhana, for example, is also in the inscriptions of Bharhut, a stūpa in Madhya Pradesh, located about 1,200 kilometers northeast of Kanaganahalli. Ibid., 60. 7. Nakanishi and von Hinüber, Kanaganahalli Inscriptions , 54 . 6. For the edict of Aśoka from Kanaganahalli...
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 October 2016
... century (see Fig. struct the pagoda, as well as Buddhist remains on site
22). According to Perlee, the four sides of Bars-Khot 1 and pagodas he had seen in Mongolia that he believed
measured 1,900, 1,770, 1,770, and 1,530 meters begin- to be Khitan, Perlee posited that the pagoda in question
ning...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 37–61.
Published: 01 April 2021
... mudrā ). Imagery of Buddhas preaching in a paradise setting with floating instruments that appear to play by themselves is a long-standing tradition throughout Asia. 29 Depictions of heavenly music spread across Asia and became visual cues to emphasize sacred Buddhist sounds. The appearance...
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Archives of Asian Art (2017) 67 (2): 143–187.
Published: 01 October 2017
... with the Akaniṣṭha Shrine. The point is to demonstrate that the Akaniṣṭha Shrine paintings distinctively animate the prepared viewers' perception of the sacred themes in a way consonant with certain practices and ideas implicit in Tibetan Buddhist consecration rituals that result in living images. The same notions...
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Archives of Asian Art (2021) 71 (1): 93–122.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ): 208 – 14 , pls. 1–8. Bhattacharya, Gouriswar . “ Inscribed Image of a Śaivācārya from Bengal .” In Essays on Buddhist Hindu Jain Iconography and Epigraphy , Studies in Bengal Art Series 1 , edited by Enamul Haque , 309 – 13 , pls. 30.1–5. Dhaka : International Centre for Study of Bengal...
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (1): 81–105.
Published: 01 April 2016
... the promise of assistance
MICHELLE C. WANG The Thousand-armed Man˜ jus´rı¯ at Dunhuang 97
Fig. 26. Mt. Wutai Mural, Mogao Cave 61, west wall, Five Dynasties period. Dunhuang, China, mural painting. From Wei-cheng Lin,
Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist...
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Archives of Asian Art (2012) 62 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., or homelessness, an dha’’ were not only shorn of their original Buddhist
absolute loss of place in which sculpture ‘‘operates contexts, they were resituated in a new Buddhist con-
in relation to this loss of site, producing the monument text, a Western incarnation of Buddhism as modern
as abstraction...
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Archives of Asian Art (2001) 52 (1): 11–43.
Published: 01 April 2001
... Chinese traditions, appealed strongly to artistically
modern city of Guangzhou—another site of thriving inclined intellectuals.4° Xie Lingyun represents this dis-
Buddhist and Daoist communities—when, passing through tinctive aspect of Donglin culture. A member of a great
Xunyang, he changed his...
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Archives of Asian Art (2016) 66 (2): 153–185.
Published: 01 October 2016
... Kingdoms,
Pearl River Delta
Thai Buddhist monastery, or wat serves as a built or restored in the second quarter of the nineteenth
Adwelling place for monks, a site for ordination, century (Fig. 2). As objects of foreign origin whose
chanting, teaching, and other Buddhist rituals and activ...
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Archives of Asian Art (2024) 74 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Mountain Sites from North to South .” In Wang and Tsai , Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Shandong Province , Vol. 3 , 6 – 10 . Ledderose, Lothar . “ Epigraphers in Zoucheng .” In Wang and Wenzel , Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Shandong Province , Vol. 2 , 12 – 30...
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Archives of Asian Art (2010) 60 (1): 43–78.
Published: 01 April 2010
... teachings against the imminent annihilation of
Tshan boasts the largest holding of Buddhist scrip- Buddhism. The underlying determination to transcend
tures in stone assembled in China. Located seventy-five the end of the Dharma was first and most compellingly
kilometers southwest of Beijing, the site once...
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Archives of Asian Art (2014) 64 (2): 119–163.
Published: 01 October 2014
... Yakushiji and during the Kamakura period (1192–1333).25 Taishi-den
Ko¯ fukuji also had pagodas with Buddhist motifs shiki collects hagiographies of the prince and Cho¯ shi-
constructed in clay, while excavations of sites including maru, along with information on the history of Ho¯ ryu¯ ji
Kawaharadera...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 255–272.
Published: 01 October 2022
... . Somerville, MA : Wisdom , 2018 . ten Grotenhuis, Elizabeth . Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 1999 . Tribe, Anthony . Tantric Buddhist Practice in India: Vilāsavajra's Commentary on the Mañjuśri-nāmasaṃgiti, a Critical...
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Archives of Asian Art (2022) 72 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that inhabit the area framing the passageway create a torana , a freestanding arch that marks the gateway into and out of a sacred space in Buddhist visual culture ( Figure 4 ). At the apex of the arch stands a garuḍa , an avian hominoid with arms outstretched and wings spread. To each side of the garuḍa...
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Archives of Asian Art (2010) 60 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 April 2010
... for the Buddhists and Jains while largely
point of the site.6 The new Visnu temple’s gateway accepting the full pantheon of Hindu deities. As we
(gopuram) led through a stone pillared˙ ˙ hall to the ocean, shall see, however, not all Pallava rulers were equally
where Pallava monarch Ra¯jasim˙ ha (r. 700–728) had...
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