The Johan Moger Collection (PB) | By Karow, Otto (Author) | White Lotus. \n \nThis offers the reader an admirable survey and description of a sacral art that is yet too little studied, the rich Burmese tradition. Of particular importance...

\n \n \n \nOne of the seeming miracles in the story of man is the spread of ideas, across the barriers of formidable mountains, vast oceans and national boundaries. The warm acceptance of concepts from distant lands goes to underline...

\n \n \n \n"Mesocosm" is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of city - what the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is...

The Mahabodhi Mahavihara which stands majestically identifying the spot of the Buddha's Enlightenment is not only an artistic edifice but is also a place of worship where people and practitioners have immense faith and belief and is also a cultural...

Indian Art at Delhi - 1903: The Official Catalogue of the Delhi Exhibition, 1902-03 (HB)- By George Watt (Author) - MLBD Publications \n \nBaudhayana Srautasutram: Bhavswamikrit-Kalpvivranen Sametam (5 Vols.): The Baudhayana Srautasutra with the Commentary of BhavasvamThe volume was first...

Though India is no longer a Buddhist country, Buddhism held its place among Indian faiths for nearly seventeen centuries (500 B.C.-A.D. 1200). During this long stretch of time the Buddhist monks were organized in Sanghas in most parts of the...

The present book is an authoritative and authentic source for the study of Indian coins. It not only describes the coins but also studies them critically in all their aspects. The points which are dealt with here are on numismatic...

The book surveys the structure of Indian sculpture in its relevant aspects. The underlying and essential qualities are viewed in their permanency throughout the special conditions that the single monuments imply. Their outward connections, geographical and chronological, are seen to...

Although the poetry and philosophy of India were discovered by Europeans over a hundred years ago, and had the most important influence, the visual arts of India remained unappreciated. While 'Sakuntala' and the 'Sermons of Buddha' were recognized as having...

India is a civilization of many images a culture of many visual feasts a tradition where the visible and the palpable are as important as the oral and the occurrent, where our highest truths are embodied in our kathas and...

My object in this volume is to write the history of what is called Nyaya, one of the six schools into which orthodox philosophy in India is divided. The word ëlogicí, although it is in common parlance held synonymous with...

The present work is intended not as a handbook but as an introduction to its subject, to be read from beginning to end. Each section is preparation for the next. Chapter I, presenting as it does a brief historical outline...