Iconography Buddhist and Hindu
Iconography Buddhist and Hindu
| Product ID: | 9783033063815 |
| Book Name: | Nepalese Stone Sculptures ( Two Volumes ) |
| Author Name: | Ulrich Von Schroeder |
| Price: | USD 800 |
| Description: | Monograph on the stylistic and iconographic development of Nepalese stone sculptures. Two monumental volumes with illustrations of 2900 Nepalese stone sculptures – many never published before Volume One – Hindu 798 pages with 1720 colour and duo-tone illustrations of 1670 Hindu stone sculptures Volume Two – Buddhist 758 pages with 1240 colour and duo-tone illustrations of 1228 mostly Buddhist stone sculptures |
| Product ID: | 9788121504232 |
| Book Name: | The Palaeography of India |
| Author Name: | Rai Bahadur, Pandit Gaurisankar Hirachand Ojha |
| Price: | USD 30 |
| Description: | This pioneering work is of permanent importance. In this work, the author has culled together the widely-scattered data at one place for the benefit of the scholars and students of Indian palaeography. The chief merit of the work lies in the wide ranging survey of the various scripts of India, a Study of which, as the author rightly points out in his scholarly Preface, can enable a Student to decipher and read the Ancient Indian epi-graphs. The book… |
| Product ID: | 9788124601747 |
| Book Name: | The Yantras of Deities and their Numerological Foundations: An Iconographic |
| Author Name: | Fredrick W. Bunce |
| Price: | USD 40 |
| Description: | Hinduism is known for the bewildering profusion of its deities, who are represented not only in two or three dimensional anthropomorphic images, but also in abstract configurations, known as yantras. In yantras is, thus, seen almost a parallel with the surfeit of deities in Hindu tradition. Literally meaning an 'instrument', 'apparatus' or a 'talisman', yantra is a kind of mystical diagram used, in tantra, for both meditation and invoking a divinity, and is believed to possess/arouse occult powers. |
| Product ID: | 9788173049644 |
| Book Name: | The Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa d |
| Author Name: | Anncharlott Eschmann, Hermann Kulke and Gaya Charan Tripathi |
| Price: | USD 75 |
| Description: | Classic, edited essays from a University of Heidelberg International Conference, orig. pub. 1978. many plates. 25 contribvutions by anthropolgoists, students of religion, historians. a model of interdisciplinary discourse, and basic on Indian history, nature of Hinduism. |
| Product ID: | 9788173053139 |
| Book Name: | The Indian Buddhist Iconography |
| Author Name: | Benoytosh Bhattacharyya |
| Price: | USD 49.95 |
| Description: | This volume is an attempt to present a comprehensive work on Buddhist iconography of India, and is mainly based on Sanskrit text prepared from seven recension |
| Product ID: | 9788173055157 |
| Book Name: | Naga in Indian Iconography and Art |
| Author Name: | R.K. Sharma |
| Price: | USD 130 |
| Description: | Dr. R.K. Sharma (b. 1932), Professor and Head of the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Jabalpur (M.P.), retired in 1992. His contribution to the cause of Indian archaeology in general and archaeology of Madhya Pradesh in particular is widely acclaimed. His prestigious publications include: Madhya Pradesh evam Chhattisgarh ke Puratattva ka Sandarbh Granth (Bhopal, 1974, 2010); The Temple of Chausatha Yogini at Bheraghat (Delhi, 1978); Art of the Paramaras… |
| Product ID: | 9788174790873 |
| Book Name: | Recent Researches in Indian Art and Iconography |
| Author Name: | Bhagwant Sahai |
| Price: | USD 60 |
| Description: | About the book: this collection of fifty-one articles brings to light the recent trends in the study of sculptural art, iconography and architecture and focuses on the different aspects of indian art these papers are contributed by the eminent scholars expert in their fields from different parts of india and presented in honor of in honor of dr cp sinha, former director of the prestigious kp jayaswal research institute, patna the papers, written in wide and expressive style… |
| Product ID: | 9788177421606 |
| Book Name: | The iconographhy of Hindu Tantric Deities |
| Author Name: | Gudrun Buhnemann |
| Price: | USD 60 |
| Description: | This book deals with the iconography of Hindu deities as presented in Sanskrit texts. Volume one presents the 108 deity descriptions extracted from the sixteenth-century North Indian Mantramahodadhi by Mahidhara. Each entry includes the Sanskrit text in transliteration, a literal translation, a note on the distribution of the iconographic attributes and explanatory notes on the deities, taking into account similar descriptions found in other Sanskrit texts. Volume two compares for the first time deity… |
| Product ID: | 9788177421613 |
| Book Name: | Vrttamalastuti of Jnanasrimitra with Sakyaraksita's Vrttamala(stuti)vivrti |
| Author Name: | Michael Hahn |
| Price: | USD 75 |
| Description: | The Vrttamalastuti or 'Praise in the Form of a Garland of Metres Counted by Syllables' is a unique piece of literature composed by Jnanasrimitra, who taught Buddhist philosophy and other subjects at the university of Vikramasila in the first half of the 11th century. This work illustrates 150 metres in the form of a hymn, as indicated by its title. The addressee is the Bodhisattva Manjusri. With great ingenuity Jnanasrimitra manages to include the name of each metre… |
| Product ID: | 9789384082468 |
| Book Name: | In the Names of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata |
| Author Name: | Tapati Guha - Thakurta |
| Price: | USD 110 |
| Description: | Each year, Kolkata's Durga Puja scales new heights as the most spectacular and extravagant event in the city's calendar. From the turn of the twenty-first century, the festival has taken on a particular artistic dispensation that is unique to the contemporary city, demanding a new order of attention and analysis. Based on field-research conducted between 2002 and 2012, this book unravels the anatomy of this newly-congured 'art' event, by tracking the new production processes, the mounting trends of publicity… |
| Product ID: | 9789937112802 |
| Book Name: | Sri Yantra |
| Author Name: | Shankar Nath Rimal |
| Price: | USD 30 |
| Description: | Shankar Nath Rimal is an engineer whose range of works covers many disciplines. Born in 1935 to Sita Devi Rimal and Devendra Nath Rimal, Shankar N. Rimal was introduced to Sanskrit and Nepali languages at the age of four, under the tutelage of his grandfather Sri Shiva Nath Rimal.
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| Book Name: | Elements of Hindu Iconography (4 Pts.) |
| Author Name: | Gopinatha Rao |
| Price: | USD 100 |
| Description: | This treatise is an early attempt for a diligent search into the origin, descriptions, symbols, mythological background, meaning and moral aims of Hindu images. The book is in two volumes, each volume |
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| Book Name: | Elements of Hindu Iconography (4 Pts.) |
| Author Name: | Gopinatha Rao |
| Price: | USD 60 |
| Description: | This treatise is an early attempt for a diligent search into the origin, descriptions, symbols, mythological background, meaning and moral aims of Hindu images. The book is in two volumes, each volume |
| Product ID: | xxx |
| Book Name: | Dictionary of Buddhist iconography, 15 vols. (complete set) |
| Author Name: | Lokesh Chandra |
| Price: | USD 800 |
| Description: | The dictionary of Buddhist Iconography is an endeavour of half a centruy to identify, classify, describe and delineate the bewildering variation in Buddhist icons, ever since the representation of the Buddha on a coin of the Kushan Emperor Kaniska. It is a continuation of the vast iconic materials and research that the authors father Prof. RaghuVira had conducted since the 1930s. Thousands of index cards, microfilms, photographs, painted scrolls, statues, woodcuts, line drawings, sketches in man |
