Sacred traces : British exploration of Buddhism in South Asia / Janice Leoshko.

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Leoshko, Janice.

Title & Author:

Sacred traces : British exploration of Buddhism in South Asia / Janice Leoshko.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 169 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Histories of vision

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-164) and index.
1. On studying Indian Buddhist art -- 2. Identifying the sacred geography of Indian Buddhism -- 3. Determining the images of sacred Buddhist geography -- 4. Defining the later images of eastern India -- 5. A postscript on seeing sacred images.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The author's aim in this study is to demonstrate the past significance of Buddhism in India and how it was only gradually recognized in the first half of the 19th-century, becoming the focus of study for many British philologists.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0754601382 (alk. paper)
9780754601388 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Cunningham, Alexander, Sir, 1814-1893.
Waddell, L. A. (Laurence Austine), 1854-1938.
Buddhist art India Historiography.
Buddhist art India.
Art, Pala India.
Art bouddhique Inde Historiographie.
Art bouddhique Inde.
Art de la dynastie pāla Inde.
Art, Pala.
Buddhist art.
Education.
Buddhismus
Kunst
Geschichte
Entdeckung
Boeddhistische kunst.
Vakbeoefening.
Britten.
Buddhist art India History.
Art criticism Great Britain.
British India.
Buddhism India.
India Study and teaching Great Britain History 19th century.
Inde Étude et enseignement Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Great Britain.
India.
Südasien
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Histories of vision.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227600
Call No.: N8193.I6 L4 2003
Status: Available

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