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The Buddhist Architecture of Gandhara (Hardcover)
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The Buddhist Architecture of Gandhara (Hardcover)
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, 17
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Gandhara, with its wide variety of architectural remains and
sculptures, has for many decades perplexed students of South and
Central Asia. Kurt Behrendt in this volume for the first time and
convincingly offers a description of the development of 2nd century
B.C.E. to 8th century C.E. Buddhist sacred centers in ancient
Gandhara, today northwest Pakistan.
Regional variations in architecture and sculpture in the Peshawar
basin, Swat, and Taxila are discussed. At last a chronological
framework is given for the architecture and the sculpture of
Gandhara, but also light is being shed on how relic structures were
utilized through time, as devotional imagery became increasingly
significant to Buddhist religious practice.
With an important comparative overview of architectural remains, it
is indispensable for all those interested in the development of the
early Buddhist tradition of south and central Asia and the roots of
Buddhism elsewhere in Asia.
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