Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Translators of early Chinese Buddhist texts came to China from western Central Asia and Northwest India via the silk routes. ANS ...
Bibliography Härtel, Herbert, and Yaldiz, Marianne. Along the Ancient Silk Routes: Central Asian Art from the West Berlin State ...
(The Crown Jewel of Poetry), attributed to King Parakramabahu II (thirteenth century). These works are classical in style, and p ...
Obeyesekere, Ranjini. Sinhala Writing and the New Critics. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Gunasena, 1974. Obeyesekere, Ranjini. “A Survey o ...
SLAVERY The definition of the word slaveryand the identifica- tion of terms such as Sanskrit dasaand corresponding vocabulary i ...
Singh, Madan Mohan. “Slavery as Known from the Buddhist Pali Sources.” Indian Historical Quarterly39/1–2 (1963): 1–12. JONATHANA ...
scarves. The international Tang style is apparent in the thin clothes and fluid folds. The complex but precise iconometry of the ...
unique image types, including stone wheels of the law (dharmacakra) that were raised on pillars, as well as depictions of the Bu ...
attempted to rescue shipwrecked sailors. We know from a thirteenth-century Chinese visitor that the wa- ters of Neak Pean were b ...
and metal. It was during this Central Javanese period that the Buddhist monument BOROBUDURwas erected (ca. 800–830). Few Buddhis ...
built in bamboo and thatch, with people living on boats that left no trace. Most of the Buddhist art associated with S ́rvijay ...
extensive series of glazed stone tiles, including 912 tiles depicting jatakasthat are arranged in tiers on the roof, which rise ...
Gosling, Betty. Sukhothai: Its History, Culture, and Art.Singa- pore and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Guillon, Emman ...
bas-relief representations of important moments pre- sumed to have taken place during the Buddha’s life and, later, with events ...
(sutra-burial mounds), although many more mountains bearing different names were also sites of sutra-burial. Twenty-nine bear ...
is the Pure Land of buddhas and bodhisattvas (mitsugon jodo,Pure Land adorned with mysteries). Third, a doc- trine issued from ...
part of Honshu Island to the southernmost part of Kyushu Island, and they ranged from relatively small areas to the entirety of ...
cal topography, natural features (in particular, sources of water), Buddhist monasteries, shrines to local gods, and narratives ...
Outer Shrine dedicated to a god of food. During the medieval period, these sanctuaries became the object of complex associations ...
SRI LANKA Sri Lanka is home to the world’s oldest continuing Buddhist civilization. Brahminscriptions etched in stone on drip ...
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