Author: John Guy
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN: 9781851779192
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This beautiful reprint illustrates the V & A's unrivalled collection of South Asian sculpture, putting "Indian temple Sculpture" in its context as an instrument of worship intended to embody powerful religious experience. Author John Guy considers the origin, cosmological meaning and role of sculpture within the temple setting, and reveals the vivid rituals and traditions still in practice today. The book is also an absorbing introduction to the principal iconographic forms in the three traditional religions of the Indian subcontinent, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, with the principal deities presented through their myths and manifestations. John Guy is Senior Curator of South and South-East Art in the Asian Department of the V & A.0.
Indian Temple Sculpture
Author: John Guy
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN: 9781851779192
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This beautiful reprint illustrates the V & A's unrivalled collection of South Asian sculpture, putting "Indian temple Sculpture" in its context as an instrument of worship intended to embody powerful religious experience. Author John Guy considers the origin, cosmological meaning and role of sculpture within the temple setting, and reveals the vivid rituals and traditions still in practice today. The book is also an absorbing introduction to the principal iconographic forms in the three traditional religions of the Indian subcontinent, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, with the principal deities presented through their myths and manifestations. John Guy is Senior Curator of South and South-East Art in the Asian Department of the V & A.0.
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN: 9781851779192
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This beautiful reprint illustrates the V & A's unrivalled collection of South Asian sculpture, putting "Indian temple Sculpture" in its context as an instrument of worship intended to embody powerful religious experience. Author John Guy considers the origin, cosmological meaning and role of sculpture within the temple setting, and reveals the vivid rituals and traditions still in practice today. The book is also an absorbing introduction to the principal iconographic forms in the three traditional religions of the Indian subcontinent, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, with the principal deities presented through their myths and manifestations. John Guy is Senior Curator of South and South-East Art in the Asian Department of the V & A.0.
The Temple Architecture of India
Author: Adam Hardy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Through lucid visual analysis, accompanied by drawings, this book will allow readers to appreciate the concepts underlying designs that at first sight often seem bewilderingly intricate. The book will be divided into six parts that cover the history and development of the design and architecture of Indian temples.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Through lucid visual analysis, accompanied by drawings, this book will allow readers to appreciate the concepts underlying designs that at first sight often seem bewilderingly intricate. The book will be divided into six parts that cover the history and development of the design and architecture of Indian temples.
The Hindu Temple
Author: Stella Kramrisch
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120802247
Category : Hindu temples
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120802247
Category : Hindu temples
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
What You Will See Inside a Hindu Temple
Author: Dr. Mahendra Jami
Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing
ISBN: 1594731160
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Colorful illustrations enhance this visit to a Hindu temple which describes the temple itself and the activities that take place.
Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing
ISBN: 1594731160
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Colorful illustrations enhance this visit to a Hindu temple which describes the temple itself and the activities that take place.
The Hindu Temple
Author: George Michell
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India
Author: Anna Aleksandra Ślączka
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415843X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This book is a thorough study, based on both the textual and archaeological data, of the three important temple consecration rituals of the Hindu tradition.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415843X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This book is a thorough study, based on both the textual and archaeological data, of the three important temple consecration rituals of the Hindu tradition.
Rediscovering the Hindu Temple
Author: Vinayak Bharne
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443867349
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443867349
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...
Indian Temple Architecture
Author: Adam Hardy
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170173120
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170173120
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City
Author: Deonnie Moodie
Publisher: Paperbackshop UK Import
ISBN: 0190885262
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
"Middle-class Hindus have worked to modernize Kālīghāṭ - the most famous Hindu temple in Kolkata - over the past long century. Rather than being rejected with the onslaught of European modernity, the temple became a facet through which Hindus could produce and publicize their modernity, as well as their cities' and their nation's"--
Publisher: Paperbackshop UK Import
ISBN: 0190885262
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
"Middle-class Hindus have worked to modernize Kālīghāṭ - the most famous Hindu temple in Kolkata - over the past long century. Rather than being rejected with the onslaught of European modernity, the temple became a facet through which Hindus could produce and publicize their modernity, as well as their cities' and their nation's"--
Temples of South India
Author: Ambujam Anantharaman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description