Art and the Architecture
Art and the Architecture
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Book Name: | Mustang Building Tibetan Temples and Vernacular Architecture |
Author Name: | John Harrison |
Price: | USD 50 |
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Product ID: | 0-8348-0526-X |
Book Name: | Sulima Pagoda: East Meets West In The Restoration Of A Nepalese Temple |
Author Name: | Erich Theophile and Niels Gutschow |
Price: | USD 75 |
Description: | Nine experts on conservation discuss and present their views of twenty-nine years of international participation in restoring ancient temples in Nepals Kathmandu Valley. These discussions, illustrated with drawings and photographs, focus on the Sulima Temple in the Patan Darbar Square, possibly the oldest intact multi-tier pagoda in the Kathmandu Valley |
Product ID: | 0-906026-52-0 |
Book Name: | Kathmandu Valley Paintings |
Author Name: | Hugo E. Kreijger |
Price: | USD 60 |
Description: | Kathmandu Valley Paintings Author: Hugo E. Kreijger |
Product ID: | 0-906026-57-1 |
Book Name: | The Lhasa Atlas Traditional Tibetan Architecture and Townscape |
Author Name: | Knud Larsen and Amund Sinding-Larsen |
Price: | USD 70 |
Description: | The Lhasa Atlas Traditional Tibetan Architecture and Townscape Author: Knud Larsen and Amund Sinding-Larsen |
Product ID: | 0944142583 |
Book Name: | Art of Tibet: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection |
Author Name: | Pratapaditya Pal |
Price: | USD 140 |
Description: | Pp. 343 (1); 277 illustrations (56 fine color photos, 221 black-and-white photos). Publisher\\s original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, 4to. The Tibetan collection of the Los Angeles Museum of Art is one of the most significant and comprehensive outside of Tibet, built around the Nasli and Alice Heeramanock Collection and including paintings collected in the 1930s by Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci (from jacket flap). The volume closes with an appendix… |
Product ID: | 1-57062-439-9 |
Book Name: | Ruthless Compassion; Wrathful Deities in Early Indo-Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist Art |
Author Name: | Rob Linrothe |
Price: | USD 95 |
Description: | Ruthless Compassion; Wrathful Deities in Early Indo-Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist Art Author: Rob Linrothe |
Product ID: | 1-86450-120-0 |
Book Name: | Buddhist Stupas in Asia: The Shape of Perfection |
Author Name: | Joe Cummings |
Price: | USD 75 |
Description: | Buddhist Stupas in Asia: The Shape of Perfection Author: Joe Cummings |
Product ID: | 1-870838-76-9 |
Book Name: | Nepal:. A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley |
Author Name: | Micheal Hutt |
Price: | USD 30 |
Description: | Nepal:. A Guide to the Art and Architecture of the Kathmandu Valley Author: Micheal Hutt |
Product ID: | 1932476245 |
Book Name: | Empowered Masters Tibetan Wall Paintings of Mahasiddhas at Gyantse |
Author Name: | Ulrich von Schroeder |
Price: | USD 95 |
Description: | Some of the most important Tibetan Buddhist monuments to have survived the ravages of history are the temples and chapels at Gyantse in Southern Tibet. In a chapel on the upper floor of the Palkhor Tsuglagkhang there exist superb wall paintings of the legendary eighty-four mahasiddhas – tantric adepts who, through effort and practice, have attained perfection and are endowed with extraordinary powers. |
Product ID: | 81-208-1301-4 |
Book Name: | Stupa and its Technology A Tibeto-Buddhist Perspective |
Author Name: | Pema Dorjee |
Price: | USD 25 |
Description: | Among all the religious monuments of the world, the stupa has the longest uninterrupted historical development. Through modeled after the Indian prototype, the stupa architecture was developed in all the countries where Buddhism had flourished. Over time, the structural shape of the stupa underwent significant modifications in India and the other Asian Buddhist countries. |
Product ID: | 81-208-14 |
Book Name: | History of Civilizations of CENTRAL ASIA Vol I, II, III, IV & IV(i) |
Author Name: | A. H. Dani and V. M. Masson |
Price: | USD 120 |
Description: | History of Civilizations of CENTRAL ASIA Vol I, II, III, IV & IV(i) Author: A. H. Dani and V. M. Masson ISBN : 81-208-1409-6 (Set) |
Product ID: | 81-85026-68-8 |
Book Name: | NEPAL Old Images, New Insights |
Author Name: | Pratapaditya Pal |
Price: | USD 60 |
Description: | NEPAL Old Images, New Insights Author: Pratapaditya Pal |
Product ID: | 81-85179-19-0 |
Book Name: | Gyantse and its Monasteries INDO-TIBETICA, Vol 1-4 |
Author Name: | Guiseppe Tucci |
Price: | USD 150 |
Description: | Gyantse and its Monasteries INDO-TIBETICA, Vol 1-4 Author: Guiseppe Tucci |
Product ID: | 81-88204-21-8 |
Book Name: | Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure |
Author Name: | Pratapaditya Pal |
Price: | USD 50 |
Description: | Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure Author: Pratapaditya Pal |
Product ID: | 8120809904 |
Book Name: | The Art of Ajanta and Sopocani |
Author Name: | Om D. Upadhya |
Price: | USD 20 |
Description: | Pauranic Prana-aesthetics, a finer shade different from that of vitalistic aesthetics )the earlier having breathing-rhythm of "Ksaya-Vrddhi"--diminuation and augmentation--other than the latter |
Product ID: | 8120816307 |
Book Name: | Art of Indian Asia (2 Vols.) |
Author Name: | Heinrich Zimmer / Joseph Campbell |
Price: | USD 100 |
Description: | Art and Architecture of India in two Vol |
Product ID: | 812460069 |
Book Name: | A Dictionary of Buddhist and Hindu Iconography — Illustrated |
Author Name: | Bunce, Fredrick W. |
Price: | USD 40 |
Description: | Man has, from times immemorial, exhibited a striking predilection for symbols. Which, through written words, drawings, sculptures or other visual/iconographic representations, seem to have shaped much of mankind’s culture. From the simplest, yet eloquent, drawings on the walls of the prehistoric caves, through the sophistication of Egyptian imagery, the sculptural embroidered wealth of a Khajuraho, or the convoluted elegance of a Mannerist painting — all interweave iconographic imagery so inextricably into their very core that, without its visual/didactic richness, these… |
Product ID: | 812460178X |
Book Name: | The Tibetan Iconography of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and other Deities |
Author Name: | Bunce, Fredrick W.; Chandra, Lokesh |
Price: | USD 280 |
Description: | Beginning with a few aniconic symbols, like footprints, the Bo tree or stupas, in the pre-christian Indian art, Buddhism, over the centuries, came to evolve a be-wildering array of deities — in ever-increasing number of pantheons. Interestingly, in Buddhism today, there are perhaps as many pantheons as there are countries, or internal regions or sects within them. Chou Fo P’u-sa sheng Hsiang Tsan, in focus here, is one of these many Buddhist pantheons and acknowledgedly the ‘culmination of Lamaist art’.… |
Product ID: | 8124601968 |
Book Name: | Tantra and Sakta Art of Orissa (3 Vols. set) |
Author Name: | Donaldson, Thomas Eugene |
Price: | USD 350 |
Description: | The emergence of Tantrism and Shaktism in the sixth-seventh centuries in ancient India symbolised a belief in fertility worship, worship of the female principle with the Devi/Goddess supreme as the Energy/Power — the substance of everything, pervading everything. In Orissa in particular, the shakta/tantra cults played a major role in the religion and culture of the region and this is testified by its many temples and sculptural wonders therein. In this work, Prof. Donaldson presents a rich and variegated picture… |
Product ID: | 8124602263 |
Book Name: | The Buddhist Art of Kausambi (From 300 BC to AD 550) |
Author Name: | Tripathi, Aruna |
Price: | USD 75 |
Description: | One of the major centres of Buddhist art in ancient times, Kaushambi provides evidence of an uninterrupted art tradition spanning centuries. Pointing to the scant attention Kaushambi has received from scholars in the past, this work attempts to highlight its art treasures through a study of its stone sculptures. Based on scrutiny of stone sculptures found at various sites in Kaushambi and its vicinity and housed in different museums, it presents perhaps the first extensive documentation of the Buddhist art… |