Hinayana

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Rajesh Kumar Singh
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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…
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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 of research…
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Ayan Ghosh with captions by Krittika Narula
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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 remarks 2. The…
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M.K. Dhavalikar
                                             Contents Introduction Mahayana Buddhism Junnar Kanheri Kuda Mahad Ajanta Ajanta Conclusion Captions References   Introduction There are about 1200 rock-cut caves in India, of which 1000 are in Maharashtra, and of these nearly two-thirds are Buddhist.…
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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 Sciences. We…
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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-cut…
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