Sacred Landscapes in Asia : Shared Traditions, Multiple Histories

Himanshu Prabha Ray

ISBN 10: 817304726X / ISBN 13: 9788173047268

Edité par Manohar Publishers And Distributors Jan 2007, 2007

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Neuware - Throughout history the peoples of Asia have been known for their mobility and interactions. The notion of territorially defined nations is historically recent. There was a continuing dialogue between Asian cultures which functioned at both the spatial and the temporal level, propelled by the movement of the great religions of Asia across continents via trading communities, clergies, Buddhist and Sufi scholars and communities of artisans. This book explores the aesthetic theories underlying many genres of the Asian arts. These characterise the dialogue between and amongst different Asian regions. The same Asian notions of space and time are manifested in architectural form as also in a wide variety of visual arts. The contributors in this volume identify the multi-layered discourse comprising the nature of monuments, as also the movement of motifs and symbols though sculptured and pictured representation. Some essays focus on fundamental notions such as Sunyata as common to the Indian, Korean and other Asian countries. Also, the papers bear testimony to the phenomena of dialogue and distinctiveness, continuity and change. This is evident in architectural structures, sculptural forms, particularly in iconography, and of course in the performing arts. The IIC-Asia Project in its second phase has, with purpose, traced the trajectory of transmission systems in Asian civilisation in different domains and at different levels, be it the vertical transmission from generation to generation in education, or the artistic transmission and diffusion through the arts. It is hoped that this volume will add to the meagre literature that exists on the subject and will stimulate further research and study.

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• Titre: Sacred Landscapes in Asia : Shared Traditions, Multiple Histories
• Éditeur: Manohar Publishers And Distributors Jan 2007
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 817304726X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9788173047268
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 248 L x 191 H x 28 P (en millimètres) 248 millimètres de largeur par 191 millimètres de hauteur par 28 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1020 grammes

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Throughout history the peoples of Asia have been known for their mobility and interactions. The notion of territorially defined nations is historically recent. There was a continuing dialogue between Asian cultures which functioned at both the spatial and the temporal level, propelled by the movement of the great religions of Asia across continents via trading communities, clergies, Buddhist and Sufi scholars and communities of artisans.

The present volume explores the aesthetic theories underlying many genres of the Asian arts. These characterize the dialogue between and amongst different Asian regions. The same Asian notions of space and time are mani­fested in architectural form as also in a wide variety of visual arts. The contributors in this volume identify the multi-layered discourse comprising the nature of monuments, as also the movement of motifs and symbols through sculptured and picturised representation. Some essays focus on fundamental notions such as ??nyata as common to the Indian, Korean and other Asian countries. Also, the papers bear testimony to the phenomena of dialogue and distinctiveness, continuity and change. This is evident in architectural structures, sculptural forms, particularly in iconography, and of course in the performing arts.

The IIC-Asia Project in its second phase has, with purpose, traced the trajectory of transmission systems in Asian civilization in different domains and at different levels, be it the vertical transmission from generation to generation in education, or the artistic transmission and diffusion through the arts. It is hoped that this volume will add to the meager literature that exists on the subject and will stimulate further research and study.

À propos de l?auteur

Himanshu Prabha Ray is a Research Fellow and Tutor at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford, and was the Honorary Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. She was the first Chairperson of the National Monuments Authority, Ministry of Culture, New Delhi from 2012 to 2015 and as Professor has taught at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi until 2012.

Her research interests include Maritime History and Archaeology of the Indian Ocean, the History of Archaeology in South and Southeast Asia and the Archaeol­ogy of Religion in Asia. She is the Editor of the Routledge Series on Archaeology and Religion in South Asia.