Ajanta: History and Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ajanta: History and Development write by Walter Spink. This book was released on 2018-11-12. Ajanta: History and Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The twenty-nine Buddhist caves near Ajanta form a devotional complex which ranks as one of the world's most startling achievements, created at the very apogee of India's Golden Age. Ajanta: History and Development, appears as part of the series Handbook of Oriental Studies, present the reader with a systematic treatment of all aspects of the site, the result of forty years of painstaking research in situ by Walter M. Spink. Volume one deals with the historical context in which this dramatic burst of pious activity took place under the reign of Vakataka emperor Harisena, (c. 460 – 477 A.D.), and with the sudden halt of activity almost immediately following the death of the emperor. In surprising detail the relative and absolute chronology of the site can be established from a careful reading of the physical evidence, with consequences for our dating of India’s Golden Age. Ajanta, it appears, is a veritable illustrated history of Harisena’s times, crowded with information on its history, development and how it was used. Originally published in hardcover
Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 7 Bagh, Dandin, Cells and Cell Doorways
Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 7 Bagh, Dandin, Cells and Cell Doorways - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 7 Bagh, Dandin, Cells and Cell Doorways write by Walter Spink. This book was released on 2017-01-09. Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 7 Bagh, Dandin, Cells and Cell Doorways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Walter Spink’s intense concern with the development of the Ajanta caves and their architectural, sculptural and painted features finds its most insistent reflection in his present richly illustrated study. In part 1, Spink explains the many connections between the Bagh caves and its “sister site”, Ajanta. He particularly emphasizes the leading role that Bagh plays in establishing the “short chronology” and in the crucial matter of Buddhist shrine development from the aniconic to iconic forms of worship. In part 2, along with his colleague Professor Naomichi Yaguchi, who also provided the photographs and the newly informative plans, the authors show how, over the course of a mere decade, better and better ways were discovered to fit the doors in the cells where the monks lived. Such an analysis reveals the vigor of the conceptual and technical changes that characterize Ajanta’s evolution from its start in the early 460s to its traumatic collapse in about 470. Moving from Ajanta’s beginning to its ending, the evolution of door fittings parallels the precise and dramatic development of Indian history in the remarkable course of the emperor Harisena’s reign.
Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 6 Defining Features
Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 6 Defining Features - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 6 Defining Features write by Walter Spink. This book was released on 2014-03-13. Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 6 Defining Features available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume 6, in Walter Spink's detailed analysis of the creation and development of the Ajanta caves, during the reign of the emperor Harisena (c.460-c.477) has had a profound and often upsetting impact on the understanding of Indian history in the so-called Golden Age. The author contends that through the discipline of Art History one can in fact change the established view of cultural developments in the crucial "Classic Age" (5th Century CE). One of his major aims is to prove that it was the Vakatakas, under the emperor Harisena, and not the Guptas, that brought Indian culture to its apogee in the late 470s and to show that by analyzing and organizing Ajanta's "defining feature" in revealing developmental sequences, one can support, with specifics, the revolutionary (but now increasingly accepted) "short chronology" for which the author is well known. These "defining features" range from the changing types of Buddha images and living arrangements for the monks, to the precise analysis of the evolution of pillars, doorways, and excavation techniques. The volume also includes, at the start, a discussion of the transforming effect of competition, and finally war, as a key to Ajanta's highly driven development, its florescence, and finally its sad demise.
Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 5 Cave by Cave
Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 5 Cave by Cave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 5 Cave by Cave write by Walter Spink. This book was released on 2006-12-31. Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 5 Cave by Cave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume Five comprises, along with introductory comments, two "cave by cave" guides. One which, very briefly, describes the character of each cave and its patronage, is intended to be useful for the general visitor to the site. The other, very detailed, discusses the position and peculiarities of each cave in relation to the overall, year by year, development of the site. This volume also contains a complete set of cave plans, and various illuminating charts, graphs, outlines, and maps.
Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 3 The Arrival of the Uninvited
Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 3 The Arrival of the Uninvited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 3 The Arrival of the Uninvited write by Walter Spink. This book was released on 2018-11-12. Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 3 The Arrival of the Uninvited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume Three in the Ajanta series focuses on what the site tells us about what happened in the months following the death of emperor Harisena (478 A.D.). In that year the great “Vakataka” patrons had to flee from Ajanta as a result of the Asmakas’ takeover of the site. When soon the Asmakas themselves also had to leave because of the needs of war, the great phase of patronage ended at Ajanta. But now a host of pious intruders, mostly monks and devotees still living in the region, could make their own offerings, generally violating the original patrons' programs. In this systematic cave to cave treatment, it is shown through careful interpretation of the physical evidence, that remarkably these new and “uninvited” paintings and sculptures appear only on and/or in caves which had already been dedicated by the earlier patrons. By contrast, excavations where the Buddha image had not been completed, were never utilized for such votive donations.
