Jatakas in Buddhist Thought and Art (Set of Two Volumes)
by DR. B. SUBRAHMANYAM
Author : DR. B. SUBRAHMANYAM
Publisher : BHARATIYA KALA PRAKASHAN
Language : English
ISBN : 9788180901997
Item Code : BKP006
Pages : 534
Weight : 4 KG
Dimensions : 11.20 X 9.00 INCH
Edition : 2009
Binding : HARDCOVER
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The Buddhist Monastic establishments across the Indian sub-continent were richly embellished with sculptural panels of visual narratives. The narrative art mainly centered around the great events in the lifetime of Buddha and his Previous Birth Stories. In the early centuries of the Christian era, the Kings and Donors gave more preference to the Previous Birth Stories of the Enlightened Ones as they convey morals and ethics, useful to society.
The book entitled Jatakas in Buddhist Thought and Art is the first of its kind in which the author attempted to identify the Jatakas depicted in the panels and paintings noticed in various Buddhist monasteries with the canonical and non-canonical literary works. While doing so, he discovered some Jātaka panels, left untouched by earlier scholars. The author has also highlighted the evolutionary stages of the art in sculptured panels and paintings from mono scenic to the sequential continuous narrative mode right from the Bharhut to Amaravatī School of Art and its influence as reflected in the paintings at Ajanta and carvings at Kanheri and Aurangabad rock-cut caves. The book gives a vivid picture of the diffusion and distribution of Jātaka narratives in the Indian sub-continent. The publication is well supplemented by neat photographs and drawings.
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