Temples of the Indus

Studies in the Hindu Architecture of Ancient Pakistan
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18617-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

In Pakistan's northwest, a sequence of temples built between the sixth and the tenth centuries provides a missing chapter in the evolution of the Hindu temple in South Asia. Combining some elements from Buddhist architecture in Gandhara with the symbolically powerful curvilinear Nagara tower formulated in the early post-Gupta period, this group stands as an independent school of that pan-Indic form, offering new evidence for its creation and original variations in the four centuries of its existence. Drawing on recent archaeology undertaken by the Pakistan Heritage Society as well as scholarship from the Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture project, this volume finally allows the Salt Range and Indus temples to be integrated with the greater South Asian tradition.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the history of temple architecture, art, Indic Studies, and religion in South Asia, Pakistan, Afganistan, and Central Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meister, Michael W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus

Über Autor(innen)

Michael W. Meister, Ph.D. (1974) in Fine Arts, is W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He has been general editor of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture (Delhi: 1983–92), Discourses on Siva (Philadelphia: 1984), and co-author of Desert Temples (Jaipur:
2008).