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The Buddha: a Storied Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

The Buddha: a Storied Life

Retellings of the Buddha's life story have animated and sustained Buddhist thought and practice through some 2,500 years of history. To this day, Buddhist holidays and rituals are pinned to the arc of his biography, celebrating his birth, awakening, teaching, and final nirvana. His story is the model that exemplary Buddhists follow. Often, there is a moment of insight akin to the Buddha's experience with the Four Sights, followed by a great departure from home, and a period of searching that it is hoped will lead to final awakening. The Buddha's story is not just the Buddha's story; it is the story of Buddhism. In this book, twelve leading scholars of South Asian texts and traditions articul...

Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-08-28
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South Asian Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view. This book situates manuscript illustrations and album paintings within cultures of devotion and ritual shaped by Islamic intellectual and religious histories. Central to this story are the Mughal siblings, Jahanara Begum and Dara Shikoh, and their Sufi guide Mulla Shah. Through detailed art historical analysis supported by new translations, this study contextualizes artworks made for Indo-Muslim patrons by putting them into direct dialogue with written testimonies.

History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 539

History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume provides the first comprehensive chronology of the earliest known stone sculptures from the north Indian city of Mathura. It includes new evidence for the reattribution of objects, emergence of the anthropomorphic Buddha image, and predominance of a heterodox sect of Jainism.

Rhythms of India, the Art of Nandalal Bose
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Rhythms of India, the Art of Nandalal Bose

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Revealing Krishna
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Revealing Krishna

  • Categories: Art

Focuses on a remarkable, over life-size sculpture of Krishna, an incarnation of Vishnu, in one of the earliest sculptural representations known from Cambodia.

Dyeing Elegance
  • Language: en

Dyeing Elegance

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Dyeing Elegance: Asian Modernism and the Art of Kauboku and Hisako Takaku, curated by Sonya Rie Quintanilla, Ph.D., and presented at The San Diego Museum of Art from February 18 to May 27, 2012.

The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-17
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This is a study that focuses on the art and architecture of a group of Buddhist rock-cut monuments excavated on the western edge of the Deccan Plateau in India. It analyses the various cultural, historical and religious phenomena that shaped the caves at Aurangabad through the first seven centuries of the Common Era and it comments on the Buddhist tradition of the western Deccan as a whole. The result is a comprehensive work that does not address exclusively iconography and chronology, but looks beyond Aurangabad to the larger artistic and religious traditions of the Indian Subcontinent.

Lift Up Your Hearts and Voices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 10

Lift Up Your Hearts and Voices

Adapted from the Charpentier "Te Deum in D Major" with an original school-friendly text, this is an accessible and positive way to ease your students into singing timeless choral music. An optional trumpet adds to the classic character. Majestic!

A Century of Progress in Head and Neck Cancer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

A Century of Progress in Head and Neck Cancer

Guide to advances in diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancers over last century. Led by New York specialist, numerous experts provide commentary on 100 contributory articles.

Good Health at Low Cost 25 Years on
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Good Health at Low Cost 25 Years on

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In this book, an international team of authors have sought to understand how five countries have made progress towards the ultimate goal of Good health at low cost in recent decades (and what happened to others that were viewed as successes 25 years ago). They take a holistic approach, demonstrating the strengths of collaboration across disciplines and continents. In doing so, they provide important lessons for other countries seeking to emulate success.