Rajesh Kumar Singh
in Interview
The rock-cut monuments of western India occupy a significant position in the history of Indian art and architecture. While the tradition of rock-cut architecture appears to have been discontinuous and scattered in the rest of India, it flourished without interruption in western India for a period…
in Overview
R.K.S.: We have Prof. Monika Zin with us today who is a professor of Indology and Indian Art at the University of Munich. She is quite well-known in the area of Buddhist studies: the early and mainstream Buddhism in India. Now she has, in the last ten years or more, moved her area…
in Interview
Ayan Ghosh with captions by Krittika Narula
in Image Gallery
Dieter Schlingloff
The different phases of Ajanta paintings
Dieter Schlingloff
Introduction
The Paintings of the Second Century B.C.
1. General observations
2. The Buddha in Previous Existences
3. The Superhuman Events in the Buddha’s Life
The Paintings of the Fifth Century A.D. 6
1. General…
in Article
M.K. Dhavalikar
Contents
Introduction
Mahayana Buddhism
Junnar
Kanheri
Kuda
Mahad
Ajanta
Ajanta
Conclusion
Captions
References
Introduction
There…
in Article
By Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh
Rajesh Kumar Singh: I have with me Prof. N. Yaguchi of University of Kanazawa, Japan who has been working on the Ajanta caves since the last twenty-five years as far as I know. He is a professor of architecture in the Department of Humanities and Social…
in Interview
Rajesh Kumar Singh
The Ajanta caves: an overview
Rajesh K Singh
Contents
Introduction. 1
Location. 1
Importance. 1
Period. 1
Purpose of the caves. 2
The makers of the caves. 2
The extent of the paintings. 2
The corpus of the paintings. 3
References. 5
Endnotes. 6
Introduction
The Ajanta caves are rock-…
in Overview