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Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stūpa at Amarāvatī (Ca. 300 Bce-300 Ce)

Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stūpa at Amarāvatī (Ca. 300 Bce-300 Ce)

Shimada, Akira

Hardcover

BuddhismArchitecture HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 9004232834
ISBN13: 9789004232839
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 9 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Since the dramatic discovery and tragic destruction of the monument in the 19th century, the Amarāvatī stūpa in the south-east Deccan has attracted many scholars but has also left many unanswered questions. Akira Shimada's Early Buddhist Architecture in Context provides an updated and comprehensive chronology of the stūpa and its architectural development based on the latest sculptural, epigraphic and numismatic evidence combined with the survey of the early excavation records. It also examines the wider social milieu of the south-east Deccan by exploring archaeological, epigraphic and related textual evidence. These analyses reveal that the flowering of the stūpa was not a simple accomplishment of the powerful Sātavāhana dynasty, but was the result of the long-term development of urbanization of this region between ca. 200 BCE-250 CE.

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