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| Buddhist Art In India | ||
| 作者 | Burgess, Jas |
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| 出版日期 | 2009.04.14 |
| 頁次 | 240 |
| 出版者 | Tomlin Press |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | 佛教人物=Buddhist; 佛教藝術=Buddhist Art |
| 摘要 | PREFACE THE first edition of Professor Albert GriinwedeTs handbook , on Buddhistische Kunst in Indien appeared in 1893, and the hope was expressed in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society that the work might appear in English, as "it ought to be in the hands of all antiquarians in India." Believing that so important a publication might, by a few additions, form a useful general guide to the Buddhist sculptures in the museums,, alike of India and Europe, I have prepared the present edition Miss A. C. Gibson very kindly translated for me the first edition ; but by the time it was xeacly for the press,-Prof. Grunwedel had begun his second edition containing extensive additions and alteiations. This involved delay and a revision of the whole MS. Considerable additions have also been made to this translation, which have, partly at least, been indicated, and about fifty illustrations are added. The difficulties in interpreting the Gandhara Buddhist sculptures arise chiefly from their fragmentary and unconnected condition. This has been lamentably increased by the ignorance or disregard of scientific methods on the part of the excavators of these remains. Monasteries and stupas were dug into and demolished without regard to what might be learnt in the process by modern methods ; the more complete fragments only were saved, without note of their relative positions or any attempt to recover smaller portions and chips by which they might have been pieced together ; and the spoils were sent to various museums, often without mention of the sites from which they emanated. They were often further scattered at the will of excavators among different museums and private collections, and we cannot now place together the whole of the find from a single site, so as to compare the style, and still less the order of the reliefs ; while, of the more carefully surveyed, such plans and sections as were made are defective, and without explanatory descriptions. It is sincerely to be desired that, in future, the Government of India will prevent amateur excavations, and make sure that their excavators really know how such work ought to be executed. To the " General- Verwaltung " of the Royal Museum, Berlin, I am very deeply indebted for the use of the whole of the illustrations in the, second edition, and to Professor Griinwedel himself for others from Globus (3 Feb. 1900); he has also kindly looked over the proofs : and for these favours I would respectfully tender grateful acknowledgments. To the Royal Institute of British Architects I am indebted for the use of illustrations 51, 55, 102, 103, and 104; andto Mr.W. Griggs for 35 blocks that had been prepared for papers on the Gandhara sculptures in the Journal of Irtdian Ari and Industry (Nos. 62, 63, and 69), With this manual in his hand, it is hoped, the visitor to any collection of Buddhist sculptures will find it no difficult task to understand their character and meaning. Much still remains to be added to our information ; but it is only when complete delineations, of the sculptures in various- museums and private collections, on the BarAhat fragments, and in the Kawheri, Klura, and other Bauddha caves are made available, that we shall be able to interpret more fully the iconography of Buddhism. Towards this object some real progress has recently been made by the* Government of India having ordered the photographing in detail of the S&nchi reliefs and of the small collections of GAndhara sculptures in the Bombay and Madras museums. |
| 目次 | CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. pp 1-27 CHAPTER II.-EARLY INDIAN STYLE. 28-74 CHAPTER III.-THE GANDHARA SCULPTURES. 75-157 CHAPTER IV.-REPRESENTATION OF BUDDHA AND BODHISATTVA. 168-214 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 215 INDEX 219 |
| ISBN | 1444627082; 9781444627084 |
| 點閱次數 | 886 |
| 建檔日期 | 2009.07.06 |
| 更新日期 | 2014.05.27 |
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