Buddhist Art and Architecture by Robert E. Fisher (English) Paperback Book

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The hugely diverse Buddhist tradition includes frescoes, statues, embroideries and ritual objects, as well as rock shrines, stupas, pagodas and temple complexes. Fisher describes all the Buddhist schools and cultures, from Tibet and Sri Lanka, to Korea and Japan, and explains their imagery.

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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.

Review

'A readily approachable introduction to a rich, unfamiliar aesthetic' - Los Angeles Times'Travellers would do well to pack this handy volume in their luggage' - Asian Affairs

Details ISBN0500202656 Author Robert E. Fisher Short Title BUDDHIST ART & ARCHITECTURE Pages 216 Series World of Art Language English ISBN-10 0500202656 ISBN-13 9780500202654 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1993 Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1940 DOI 10.1604/9780500202654 UK Release Date 1993-05-24 NZ Release Date 1993-05-24 Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd Publication Date 1993-05-24 DEWEY 709.17 Illustrations 147 Illustrations, black and white; 32 Illustrations, color Audience General AU Release Date 1993-04-30 We've got this

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