Author : Geri Hockfield Malandra
Release : 1993-01-01
Genre : Architecture
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Unfolding A Mạṇdala - 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 Unfolding A Mạṇdala write by Geri Hockfield Malandra. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Unfolding A Mạṇdala available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ellora is one of the great cave temple sites of India, with thirty-four major Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain monuments of the late sixth to tenth centuries A. D. This book describes the Buddhist caves at Ellora and places them in the context of Buddhist art and iconography. Ellora's twelve Buddhist cave temples, dating from the early seventh to the early eighth centuries, preserve an unparalleled one-hundred-year sequence of architectural and iconographical development. They reveal the evolution of a Buddhist mandala at sites in other regions often considered "peripheral" to the heartland of Buddhism in eastern India. At Ellora, the mandala, ordinarily conceived as a two-dimensional diagram used to focus meditation, is unfolded into the three-dimensional program of the cave temples themselves, enabling devotees to walk through the mandala during worship. The mandala's development at Ellora is explained and its significance is considered for the evolution of Buddhist art and iconography elsewhere in India.