Ajanta: history and development
Volume Two begins with writings by some of the most important critics of Walter Spink's conclusions, interspersed with his own responses, using a thorough analysis of the great Cave 26 to support his assertions. The author then turns to matters of patronage, and to the surprising fact that, unlike most other Buddhist sites, Ajanta was purely \'elitist\', developed by less than a dozen major patrons. Its brief heyday traumatically ended, however, with the death of the great emperor Harisena in a…
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Ajanta : history and development / by Walter M. Spink.
Summary
Volume Two begins with writings by some of the most important critics of Walter Spink's conclusions, interspersed with his own responses, using a thorough analysis of the great Cave 26 to support his assertions. The author then turns to matters of patronage, and to the surprising fact that, unlike most other Buddhist sites, Ajanta was purely \'elitist\', developed by less than a dozen major patrons. Its brief heyday traumatically ended, however, with the death of the great emperor Harisena in about 477, creating political chaos. Ajanta's anxious patrons now joined in a headlong rush to get their shrines dedicated, in order to obtain the expected merit, before they fled the region, abandoning their caves to the monks and local devotees remaining at the now-doomed site. These \'intrusive\' new patrons now filled the caves with their own helter-skelter votive offerings, paying no heed to the well-laid plans of the years before. A similar pattern of patronage is to be found in the redecoration of the earlier Hinayana caves, where the careful planning of the work being done during Harisena's reign is suddenly interrupted by a host of individual votive donations. The volume ends with a new and useful editing of Ajanta inscriptions by Richard S. Cohen.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2005-2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005-2014.
Notes
Vol. 6: by Walter M. Spink (text) and Naomichi Yaguchi (photographs).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (348 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1281399132, 9781281399137, 9786611399139, 6611399135, 9047409353, 9789047409359
- DOI:10.1163/9789047409359
- oclc:on1142503976
- LC Classification:NA6008.A35
- Dewey Decimal:726/.143095479
Subjects
Writers
More from this Series
No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.
Related Works
more →
History in mathematics education: the ICMI study
Karkhanas under the Mughals, from Akbar to Aurangzeb: a study in economic development
Verma, Tripta
Roman crossings: theory and practice in the Roman Republ…
Roman crossings: theory and practice in the Roman Republ…
Openness, secrecy, authorship: technical arts and the culture of knowl…
Long, Pamela O.
Openness, secrecy, authorship: technical arts and the culture of knowl…
Long, Pamela O.
Openness, secrecy, authorship: technical arts and the culture of knowl…
Long, Pamela O.
Files & Downloads
-
Ajanta, History and Development: Arguments About …
PDF · 1.3 MB · updated -
Cave by Cave (Ajanta: History and Development) (v…
PDF · 4.1 MB · updated -
Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 2: Argume…
PDF · 1.3 MB · updated -
Ajanta : history and development. Vol. IV, Painti…
PDF · 24.2 MB · updated -
Ajanta : history and development.Vol. V, Cave by …
PDF · 4.1 MB · updated -
Ajanta: History and Development: The End of the G…
PDF · 1.8 MB · updated -
Ajanta: History and Development 3. The Arrival of…
PDF · 1.6 MB · updated
Rate & Review