...Figure 16. Images and inscriptions on the Han-dynasty funerary towers of Liu Kuan, Song-dynasty illustration reproduced in Lixu . From Hong, Lixu , 359. ...

... Monastery Kherlen-Bars Liao pagodas Mongolian architecture Qingzhou pagoda Xishanpo The Pagoda in Kherlen-Bars: New Understandings of Khitan-Period Towering Pagodas nancy shatzman steinhardt...

..., trends in the funerary sphere. he strikes a dance-like pose. His costume, along with a 24...

.... in- tombs in the relatively smaller number of burial objects terred with their inhabitants. Therefore the investigation they contain.2 As illustrated in the photograph of such a of Chinese funerary art has until now focused more on tomb from Baisha, Henan, uncovered in 1951, the tomb the content...

...Melia Belli Copyright © Asia Society 2011 Keeping Up with the Rajputs: Appropriation and the Articulation of Sacrality and Political Legitimacy in Scindia Funerary Art melia belli University...

... tower, likely built in the late where the Jataganga turns due north (Fig. 2). The second eleventh or early twelfth century, and about one hundred cluster is situated at Jageshwar proper, which is about lesser shrines and dozens of detached images, dating one kilometer downstream from Dandeshwar.6...

... (gol) house (ghar) in Hindi, the ver- cylindrical towers have openings at the side for access to nacular of the Bihari region; the structure is also referred the grain, which generally goes in at the top.'7 The to as a Bola or golah, articulating only its round shape.I6 The Golghar follows...

... strongly than most of his contemporaries whose reputations were not as bad, this prince would have desired to secure a virtuous image for himself in the afterlife. Funerary art provided the only opportunity to overwrite his record of ignominious deeds and redeem his name for eternity. As images...

... established large clock towers and belfries in public places in many cities and towns. Inspired by Marxist historian E. P. Thompson's magisterial essay “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” scholars such as Jim Masselos, Ritika Prasad, and Vanessa Ogle have noted that in various Indian cities...

..., and performing arts. His design employs one of his key architectural concrete used for the coffered ceilings, floating stair- paradigms: open to sky. Correa elaborates on this concept cases, and curving towers. Swaminathan painted the as a ‘‘processional unfolding of spaces, some enclosed, exterior tower...

... of the Irukkuvel style include two similar designs roughly equal status, then, at the turn of the tenth centu- for the towered roof over the shrine, the presence of three ry. Trautmann also notes that this system of "perpetuated large niches on the central shrine (vimana), the absence of affinity" between...

... that might be read as a towering mountain Here is a possible reading of the narrative line presented compressed onto a small island. Following a solitary by these scrolls. In this sophisticated shiyi 詩意 work, in fisherman who appears at the conclusion of the paint- which everything follows and develops...

..., and the a counterclockwise reading of the four scenes beginning ˙ subsequent funerary procedures that culminate in the with the Vimalakı¯rti tableau. Mo¯ ri argued that the distribution of the relics, frequently appeared as part of Vimalakı¯rti tableau may have been chosen as a substi...

... Sunrise News at the very We set up some folding tables and chairs under a end of which the author makes mention of the Banka- tent, and called the space ‘‘Cafe´ Tower It was a Teruo Exhibition and of the strategy used by the two very novel idea at the time, with Takeda [Goichi] artists...

..., 7. Tracing by DorisYixuan Tang. Figure 13. Bas-relief of the Fuxi-Nüwa triad, south side of the eaststone tower at Nanwuyang, Feixian, Shandong, Eastern Han (86–87 ce ). After Beijing Lu Xun bowuguan, Lu Xun cang taben quanji: Han huaxiang juan 1 , 35. Tracing by Doris Yixuan Tang...

...- presence is best explained by their appeal to the pre- ities, sometimes funerary services and a place to enshrine dilections of the temples’ patrons, these paintings can the ashes of the cremated, as well as a place where living certainly be considered accretions, but also, in their community members...