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On the Cusp of an Era
South Asian religious art became codified during the Ku a Period (ca. beginning of the 2nd to the mid 3rd century). Yet, to date, neither the chronology nor nature of Ku a Art, marked by great diversity, is well understood. The Ku a Empire was huge, stretching from Uzbekistan through northern India, and its multicultural artistic expressions became the fountainhead for much of South Asian Art. The premise of this book is that Ku a Art achieves greater clarity through analyses of the arts and cultures of the Pre- Ku a World, those lands becoming the Empire. Fourteen papers in this book by leading experts on regional topography and connective pathways; interregional, multicultural comparisons; art historical, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic and textual studies represent the first coordinated effort having this focus.
Gandharan Buddhism
The ancient region of Gandhara, with its prominent Buddhist heritage, has long fascinated scholars of art history, archaeology, and textual studies. Discoveries of inscriptions, text fragments, sites, and artworks in the last decade have added new pieces to the Gandharan puzzle, redefining how we understand the region and its cultural complexity. The essays in this volume reassess Gandharan Buddhism in light of these findings, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that illuminates the complex historical and cultural dynamics of the region. By integrating archaeology, art history, numismatics, epigraphy, and textual sources, the contributors articulate the nature of Gandharan Buddhism and it...
The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice
"This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art exploration of several key dynamics in current studies of the Buddhist tradition with a focus on practice. Embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions, in contrast to popular representations of Buddhism as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. This volume highlights how practice often represents a fluid, dynamic, and strategic means of defining identity and negotiating the challenges of everyday life. Essays explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars' own embodied p...
Visualizing Dunhuang
Situated at an important juncture within the network of silk routes from China through central Asia, the oasis city of Dunhuang was an ancient site of Buddhist religious activity. Southeast of the city, the Mogao Caves, also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, are an astonishing group of hundreds of caves, carved in the cliffs between the fourth and fourteenth centuries, and containing sculptures and paintings. Further east sit the Yulin Caves, another critical and richly decorated site. Featuring some of the finest examples of Buddhist imagery to be found anywhere in the world, these caves have enticed explorers, archaeologists, artists, scholars, and photographers since the early t...
ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index
Volume Three offers 1643 annotated records on publications regarding the art and archaeology of South Asia, Central Asia and Tibet selected from the ABIA Index database at www.abia.net which were published between 2002 and 2007.
Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign
Within the frame of the sub-series Athenian Dialogues, this volume comprises a selected number of talks delivered at the annual Seminar of the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens 2018-2019 on the broad topic of Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign. The volume aims at building on the ongoing dialogue on the par excellence intricate, as well as timely issues of "ethnicity," identity, and identification, as represented in ancient Greek (and, secondarily, Roman) literature. This is certainly a richly researched field, which extends to interdisciplinary areas of inquiry, namely those of classical studies, archaeology, ancient history, sociology, and anthrop...
The Siberian World
The Siberian World provides a window into the expansive and diverse world of Siberian society, offering valuable insights into how local populations view their environments, adapt to change, promote traditions, and maintain infrastructure. Siberian society comprises more than 30 Indigenous groups, old Russian settlers, and more recent newcomers and their descendants from all over the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The chapters examine a variety of interconnected themes, including language revitalization, legal pluralism, ecology, trade, religion, climate change, and co-creation of practices and identities with state programs and policies. The book’s ethnographically rich c...
Buddhalaisuuden historia: Sen alusta sen laskuun Intiassa
Buddhalaisuus syntyi muinaisen Intian itäosassa, muinaisessa Magadhan kuningaskunnassa (nykyään Biharissa, Intiassa) ja sen ympäristössä, ja se perustuu Siddhārtha Gautaman opetuksiin. Uskonto kehittyi, kun se levisi Intian niemimaan koillisalueelta Keski-, Itä- ja Kaakkois-Aasian läpi. Kerran tai toisella se vaikutti suurimpaan osaan Aasian mannerta. Buddhalaisuuden historialle on ominaista myös lukuisten liikkeiden, skismien ja koulujen, muun muassa Theravadan ja perinteiden, kehitys, vastakkaisilla laajenemis- ja vetäytymisjaksoilla. Varhaisten lähteiden mukaan Siddhārtha Gautama syntyi pienessä Shakya (Pali: Sakka) tasavallassa, joka oli osa muinaisen Intian Kosalan valtaku...
Buddhismens historie: Fra begynnelsen til dens tilbakegang i India
Buddhismen oppstod i den østlige delen av det gamle India, i og rundt det gamle kongeriket Magadha (nå i Bihar, India), og er basert på læren fra Siddhārtha Gautama. Religionen utviklet seg da den spredte seg fra den nordøstlige regionen av det indiske subkontinentet gjennom Sentral-, Øst- og Sørøst-Asia. En eller annen gang påvirket det det meste av det asiatiske kontinentet. Buddhismens historie er også preget av utviklingen av mange bevegelser, skismer og skoler, blant dem Theravāda, og tradisjoner, med kontrasterende perioder med utvidelse og tilbaketrekning. De tidlige kildene sier Siddhārtha Gautama ble født i den lille republikken Shakya (Pali: Sakka), som var en del av ...
