Early Buddhist Artisans and Their Architectural Vocabulary

This book attempts to understand early Buddhist architectural vocabulary and the artisans who first made use of it.

List of contents

Prof D S Achuta Rao
Prof D S Achuta Rao Endowment
Acknowledgements
Preface
Foreword
1. The Earliest Artisans in History
2. The Earliest Scribe-Sculptors in the Lower Deccan (Continued rom Ch. I)
3. Early Kharoshti Artisans in North-Western India
4. The Early Buddhist Artisans
5. Applied Vocabulary of the Early Indian Architecture
6. A Buddha Vihara at Aihole
Index

About the author

S Settar is visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore. He has earlier held the chairs of Prof. S. Radhakrishnan (NIAS, Bangalore); Indian Council of Historical Research (Ministry of Human Resources, New Delhi), and Department of History and Archaeology (Karnatak University, Dharwad); and the Directorships of Indian Institute of Art History, the Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts (Southern Regional Centre, Bangalore). A bilingual writer (English and Kannada), he has so far published 30 books on history, art history, archaeology, epigraphy, religion and philosophy, Kannada Classical language and linguistics, both in Europe and India.

Summary

This book attempts to understand early Buddhist architectural vocabulary and the artisans who first made use of it.

Product details

• Authors: S Settar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2023
• EAN: 9781032548593
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254859-3
• No. of pages: 162
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Architecture, RELIGION / Buddhism / General, ARCHITECTURE / General, Buddhism, Buddhism;Buddhist Artisans;Indian Architecture