Buddhist stupas in South Asia: recent archaeological, art-historical, and historical perspectives / ed. by J.Hawkes, A.Shimada. - New Delhi; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. - xlii, 346 p.: ill., maps. - (SOAS studies on South Asia). - Bibliogr.: p.310-346. - ISBN 0-19-569886-X; ISBN 978-0-19-569886-2  Место хранения:   033 | Бурятский научный центр | Улан-Удэ | Центральная научная библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

List of Figures .............................................. viii Approaches to the Study of Buddhist Stūpas: An Introduction .............................................. xiii Jason Hawkes and Akira Shimada Section I The 'Discovery' of Buddhist Stūpas in Colonial India 1. The Archaeology of Stūpas: Constructing Buddhist Identity in the Colonial Period ............................. 3 Himanshu Prabha Ray 2. The Colonial History of Sculptures from the Amaravati Stūpa ...................................................... 20 Jennifer Howes Section II The Stūpa and its Religious Meanings 3. Relics of the Buddha: Body, Essence, Text .................. 41 Michael Willis 4. The Power of Proximity: Creating and Venerating Shrines in Indian Buddhist Narratives .............................. 51 Andy Rotman 5. Nature as Utopian Space on the Early Stūpas of India ....... 63 Robert L. Brown Section III The Stūpa in Context 6. Narrative Sequences in the Buddhist Reliefs from Gandhāra ................................................... 83 Kurt Bebrendt 7. Shedding Skins: Nāga Imagery and Layers of Meaning in South Asian Buddhist Contexts Robert DeCaroli .......................................... 94 8. Stūpas, Monasteries, and Relics in the Landscape: Typological, Spatial, and Temporal Patterns in the Sanchi Area Julia Shaw ................................................ 114 9. The Wider Archaeological Contexts of the Buddhist Stūpa Site of Bharhut ........................................... 146 Jason Hawkes Section IV Wider Social, Political, and Economic Dimensions 10. Buddhist Ideology and the Commercial Ethos in Kuṣāṇa India ..................................................... 177 Xinru Liu 11. The Urban Context of Early Buddhist Monuments in South Asia ...................................................... 192 James Heitzman 12. Amaravati and Dhānyakaṭaka: Topology of Monastic Spaces in Ancient Indian Cities .................................. 216 Akira Shimada 13. Stūpa, Story, and Empire: Constructions of the Buddha Biography in Early Post-Aśokan India ...................... 235 Jonathan S. Walters Section V The Revival of a Tradition 14. Remembering the Amaravati Stūpa: The Revival of a Ruin .... 267 Catherine Becker 15. What Makes a Stūpa? Quotations, Fragments, and the Reinvention of Buddhist Stūpas in Contemporary India ...... 288 Jinah Kim Bibliography .................................................. 310 List of Contributors .......................................... 347