L'autore:
Akira Shimada, Assistant Professor, History, Department, State University of New York, New Paltz; Dr Jason Hawkes, Assistant Finds Supervisor, Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
Contenuti:
Preface and Acknowledgements, Chapter 1. Approaches to the Study of Buddhist Stupas, Jason Hawkes & Akira Shimada; Chapter 2. The Archaeology of Stupas: Constructing Buddhist Identity in the Colonial Period, Himanshu Prabha Ray; Chapter 3. The Colonial History of Sculptures from the Amaravati Stupa, Jennifer Howes; Chapter 4. Relics of the Buddha: Body, Essence, Text, Michael Willis; Chapter 5. The Power of Proximity: Creating and Venerating Shrines in Indian Buddhist Narratives, Andy Rotman; Chapter 6. Nature as Utopian Space on the Early Stupas of India, Robert Brown; Chapter 7. Narrative Sequences in the Buddhist Reliefs from Gandhara, Kurt Behrendt; Chapter 8. Shedding Skins: Naga Imagery and Layers of Meaning in South Asian Buddhist Contexts, Robert DeCaroli; Chapter 9. Stupas, Monasteries and Relics in the Landscape: Typological, Spatial, and Temporal Patterns in the Sanchi Area, Julia Shaw; Chapter 10. The Wider Archaeological Contexts of the Buddhist Stupa Site of Bharhut, Jason Hawkes; Chapter 11. Buddhist Ideology and the Commercial Ethos in Kuan India, Xinru Liu; Chapter 12. The Urban Context of Early Buddhist Monuments in South Asia, James Heitzman; Chapter 13. Amaravati and Dhanyaka?aka: Topology of Monastic Spaces in Ancient Indian Cities, Akira Shimada; Chapter 14. Stupa, Story and Empire: Constructions of the Buddha Biography in Early Post-Asokan India, Jonathan S. Walters; Chapter 15. Remembering the Amaravati Stupa: The Revival of a Ruin, Catherine Becker; Chapter 16. What makes a Stupa?: Quotations, Fragments and the Reinvention of Buddhist Stupas in Contemporary India, Jinah Kim; Bibliography
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