Title & Author:

Sacred landscapes in Asia : shared traditions, multiple histories / preface by Kapila Vatsyayan ; edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray.

Publication:

New Delhi : Manohar Publishers & Distributors : Distributed in South Asia by Foundation Books, 2007.

Description:

ix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"India International Centre."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aesthetic theories underlying Asian performing arts / Kapila Vatsyayan -- Śūnya : immanent and transcendent : investigating meanings of void through art's space / Sung-Min Kim -- The stūpa : symbolizing religious architecture in Asia / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- Merchants, Ghazis, and the inception of an "Islamic" architecture in South Asia / Alka Patel -- Marks and symbols of professionals on Mughal monuments / Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi -- Spatial organization of Paharpur Buddhist establishment / Sandrine Gill -- A study of living culture : typo-morphology of vernacular traditional houses in Kerala / Indah Widiastuti -- Avalokiteśvara as continuing theogony of interiorization / Lokesh Chandra -- The flying messenger / Kapila Vatsyayan -- The Saiva pantheon in Indonesia : acculturation/assimilation/convergence? / Nilima Chitgopekar -- Kāla-Makara-Toranas : Javanese expressions of a shared motif / Parul Pandya Dhar -- Questioning narrativity and inscribed labels : Buddhist Bharhut, Sannati, and Borobudur / Vidya Dehejia -- Understanding the painted Jatakas in ancient India and Sri Lanka / M. Somathilake -- Crown jewels of Buddhist art : comparisons between Ajanta and Dunhuang / Chang Wen-Ling -- A system of knowledge transmission : the narrative in Indonesia (c. AD 700-900) / Malini Saran -- A comparative study of the Wayang Kulit and the Tolpavakoothu shadow puppet theatre / I. Nyoman Sedana.

Summary:

Contributed articles emanating from two conferences held at India International Centre, New Delhi on April 26-27, 2004, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla on October 25-27, 2004; part of IIC-Asia Project.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

817304726X
9788173047268

Subject:

Art, Asian Indic influences Congresses.
Art, Indic Congresses.
Architecture India Congresses.
Aesthetics, Comparative Congresses.
Art de l'Inde Congrès.
Architecture Inde Congrès.
Esthétique comparée Congrès.
Aesthetics, Comparative
Architecture
Art, Asian Indic influences
Art, Indic
India
Arts, Asian

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Ray, Himanshu Prabha.
IIC-Asia Project.
India International Centre.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256460
Call No.: BIB 186829
Status: Available