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| Nalanda: A Tale in the Twist | ||
| 作者 | Rajani, M. B. (著) ; Kumar, Viraj (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |
| 卷期 | v.78 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2019.12 |
| 頁次 | 392 - 408 |
| 出版者 | University of California Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://journals.ucpress.edu |
| 出版地 | Oakland, CA, US [奧克蘭, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1. M. B. Rajani National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India 2. Viraj Kumar Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. |
| 摘要 | Nalanda, in eastern India's Bihar state, was once the most important Buddhist monastery in the world. The six excavated temples there are oriented approximately to the cardinal directions, but their east–west axes are tilted more than 4° south of east. Other key Buddhist temples within the same cultural milieu (Bodhgaya, Vikramasila, Somapura, and Samye) are similarly oriented a few degrees south of east. As M. B. Rajani and Viraj Kumar argue in Nalanda: A Tale in the Twist, this demands an explanation, because a method to orient structures to within 0.5° of the cardinal directions was known in the region for several centuries prior to the construction of these temples. Rajani and Kumar identify a temporal pattern in the orientation of Nalanda's temples; hypothesize that each temple was aligned with the rise of a specific star (Spica or Beta Librae), with the temporal pattern being a consequence of axial precession; propose a simple, unified explanation for the few exceptions to the pattern; and use this hypothesis to propose an approximate construction date for each temple based on its orientation. |
| 目次 | Nalanda’s Temples and Associated Structures 394 Measuring Temple Orientations 397 Celestial Alignments 399 Terminology 400 Two Significant Stars: Spica and Beta Librae 400 Stellar Orientation 402 Angles and Dates 402 Some Exceptions and a Unified Explanation 405 Conclusion 406 Notes 406 |
| ISSN | 00379808 (P); 21505926 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 1 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.10.11 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.10.15 |
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