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Buddhism is the single common thread uniting the Asian world, from India to South-East Asia an through Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan. To guide and inspire believers, innumerable symbols and images were made, beginning in India in the third century BC. This phenomenally diverse tradition includes not only frescoes, relief carvings, colossal statues, silk embroideries and bronze ritual objects but also rock-cut shrines with a thousand Buddhas, the glorious stupas of South-East Asia and the pagodas of the far East, the massive 'mandala in stone' of Borobudur in Java and entire thirteenth-century temple complexes at Angkor in Cambodia. Robert E. Fisher concisely describes all the Buddhist schools and cultures, and explains their imagery, from Tibetan cosmic diagrams and Korean folk art to early Sri Lankan sites and Japanese Zen gardens.Product Identifiers
PublisherThames & Hudson LTD
ISBN-139780500202654
eBay Product ID (ePID)87858246
Product Key Features
Book TitleBuddhist Art and Architecture
AuthorRobert E. Fisher
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
Number of Pages216 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height210mm
Item Width149mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRobert E. Fisher
Series TitleWorld of Art
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom