Main entry:

Behrendt, Kurt A., 1964-

Title & Author:

The Buddhist architecture of Gandhāra / by Kurt A. Behrendt.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Description:

xxv, 335 pages, 98 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Handbook of oriental studies. Section two, India, 0169-9377 ; v. 17 = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Indien

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index.
Overview of greater Gandhāra -- Architecture and sculpture from Phase I -- The development of relic shrines: Phase I and II -- The Phase II sacred area -- The Phase II distribution and function of sculpture -- Phase III architecture and sculpture from Taxila -- Phase III and IV architecture in the Peshawar Basin -- Phase III sculpture in the Peshawar Basin -- Buddhist architecture and sculpture of Gandhāra: Conclusion -- Appendix A: The four-phase chronological system -- Appendix B: Dating Gandhāran sculpture -- Appendix C: Reuse of images and its bearing on the dating of Gandhāran sculpture -- Appendix D: Numeric count of sculpture types from some Peshawar Basin sites -- Glossary.

Summary:

Gandhara, with its wide variety of architectural remains and sculptures, has for many decades perplexed students of South and Central Asia. Kurt Behrendt in this volume for the first time and convincingly offers a description of the development of 2nd century B.C.E. to 8th century C.E. Buddhist sacred centers in ancient Gandhara, today northwest Pakistan. Regional variations in architecture and sculpture in the Peshawar basin, Swat, and Taxila are discussed. At last a chronological framework is given for the architecture and the sculpture of Gandhara, but also light is being shed on how relic structures were utilized through time, as devotional imagery became increasingly significant to Buddhist religious practice. With an important comparative overview of architectural remains, it is indispensable for all those interested in the development of the early Buddhist tradition of south and central Asia and the roots of Buddhism elsewhere in Asia.

ISBN:

9004135952 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9789004135956 (hardback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Buddhist architecture Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Sculpture, Gandhara Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Buddhist sculpture Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Architecture bouddhique Gāndhāra (Pākistān et Afghānistān)
Sculpture du Gāndhāra Gāndhāra (Pākistān et Afghānistān)
Sculpture bouddhique Gāndhāra (Pākistān et Afghānistān)
Buddhist architecture
Buddhist sculpture
Sculpture, Gandhara
Plastik
Buddhistische Kunst
Architektur
Bouwkunst.
Bouwsculpturen.
Boeddhisme.
Architektur Gandhara
Buddhismus
Architecture bouddhique
Asia Gandhara
Gandhāra
Gandhara
Indien
Gandaris.

Form/genre:

[Manuels d'enseignement]

Added entries:

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Zweite Abteilung, Indien ; 17. Bd.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231619
Call No.: NA6010.72.G36 B44 2004
Status: Available