Early Buddhist Architecture in Context - The Great Stūpa at Amarāvatī (Ca. 300 Bce-300 Ce)

The book provides an updated chronology of the Amarāvatī stūpa and argues its close link with the long-term development of urbanization of this region between ca. 200 BCE-250 CE based on the latest archaeological, art-historical and epigraphic evidence.

About the author

Akira Shimada, PhD (2006) in History, University of London, is Assistant Professor of History at State University of New York at New Paltz. He is co-editor of Buddhist Stūpas in South Asia: Recent Archaeological, Art-Historical and Historical Perspectives (Oxford, 2009).

Product details

• Authors: Akira Shimada
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2012
• EAN: 9789004232839
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23283-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Brill's Indological Library
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture