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1. Buddhist values and the human imperative.
2. The enlightenment of Sakyamuni.
3. The nature of Indic thought.
4. Emperor Asoka and Buddhism.
5. Life-friendly trends of Mahayana.
6. Buddhism, values and universality.
7. Buddhism and other cultures.
8. Buddhism and existentialism.
9. Decline of Buddhism.
10. Buddhism and Mahatma Gandhi.
11. Tagore and Japan.
12. Our century: roots and renaissance.
13. Concept of the Adibuddha.
14. Musical deities in Buddhism.
15. Interface of India with other Asian countries.
16. India and Bhutan.
17. Auspicious symbols on the soles of Lord Buddha.
18. Royal symbolism of the Prajnaparamita of Ta Prohm.
19. Classical Afghanistan.
20. Bamiyan and the Buddhist Art of Colossi.
21. Dandan-uiliq panels for the divine protection of Khotan.
22. Suvarna-bhasottama and the security of Khotan.
23. The Khotanese mural of Hariti from Dandan-uiliq.
24. Vajravarahi as the protectress of Khotan.
25. Qumtura mural of Bodhisattva Siddhartha at school.
26. Transmission of the Lotus Sutra to China.
27. Sanskrit in China.
28. Ahimsa in China.
29. The mind-ground of East Asian Art.
30. Closure of the Library Cave 17 of Tun-huang.
31. Indian and Chinese thought.
32. India and Japan in the aisles of centuries.
33. Interflow of art between India and Japan.
34. India and Japan.
35. The Lotus Sutra and Nichiren Daishonin.
36. Tribute to Prof. Hajime Nakamura.
37. Sambhota and Tibetan orthography.
38. Ambulatory of the cella of Tabo Monastery.
39. India and Mongolia.
40. Ajanta: aesthetics of beauty and beyond.
41. Sanskrit and the cultures of the world.
42. Thirty-three koti divinities.
43. Life acceptance in Hinduism.
44. Tantras: transcendence and tumescence.
45. Light is life.
46. The art of Svetoslav Roerich.
47. The Olympic Flame.
48. The broken pitcher of dogmas.
49. Indonesia: the perfume of culture.
50. Borobudur.
51. The symbolism of Candi Sukuh.
52. Candi: palladium, polity and poesy.
53. Javanese bronzes of Vasudhara and Sasta.
54. Two Indonesian inscriptions.
55. The cousin-cultures of India and Iran.
56. Central Asia as the Path of Sutras.
57. Goddesses and the simile of life.
58. Avalokitesvara as continuing theogony of interiorization.
59. Miscellany.
60. Manuscripts and the valorization of life. |
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| A collection of research papers and keynote addresses on the evolution of Buddhist art and throught across the lands of Asia. This volume explores the relation of Buddhism to Greek cosmology, its contacts with West Asia, and parallels to Christianity. The interpretation of Adibuddha as a theistic concept has been elucidated. Buddhist period of classical Afghanistan, a new identification of the colossi of Bamiyan, and the 108 symbols on the feet of the Buddhas are the way on the physical and divine planes. Several Khotanese panels, murals and icons have been identified anew on the basis of the six annals of the kingdom in Tibetan. The role of the suvarnabhasa-sutra in the polity of Central Asia and thence in East Asia has been discussed. The Lotus Sutra was transmitted to China and Japan and became a dominant underpinning of their political and religious culture. The mind-ground of East Asian art is a general survey of the aesthetic principles evolved in this region. The walling up of the Library Cave of Tunhuant was due to a fundamentalist threat. The artistic journey of fourteen centuries of Japanese Buddhism is presented. Silent letters in Tibetan orthography and the ambulatory of the Tabo cella are discussed. Buddhism in Mongolia gave a splendid art and rich literature to the people. Ajenta as the aesthesis of beauty and beyond, the thirty three koti deities, tantras as transcendence and tumescence, the cousin cultures of India and Iran, Chandi Sukuh as a political statement, the Indonesianword Candi as an architectural term, identification of Buddhist bronzes of Java, and Central Asia as the path of Sutras (and not as the silk route), and other studies enrich our understanding of the art and though, polity and civilization of the countries of Asia. This volume of 477 pages is a collection of the research papers of Prof. Lokesh Chandra written over the last fifteen years on the evolution of Buddhist though and it’s spread over vast areas of Asia. Areas of interest: Buddhism, History of art, Philosophy, and the general history of various countries (India, Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia, Cambodia, Indonesia), and cultural globalism. |
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