"Buddhist Manuscript Cultures" explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents, and examines how and why they were made. Collectively, the book offers cross-...(展开全部)

"Buddhist Manuscript Cultures" explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents, and examines how and why they were made. Collectively, the book offers cross-...(展开全部)

简·艾伦·哈里森（Jane Ellen Harrison，1850-1928），西方古典学历史上里程碑式的人物，剑桥学派“神话一仪式”学说的创立者；英国维多利亚时代的文坛女杰，同时也是现代女权主义的学术奠基人之。她广涉古典学、考古学、人类学、语言学、美学、神话学、历史学等诸多学科，掌握了包括德语、拉丁语、希腊语、希伯来语、波斯语、俄语等在内的十六种语言。著述宏富，已翻译成中文的有：《希腊宗教研究导论》（Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion,1903）、《古希腊宗教的社会起源》（Themis:A Study of the Social Origins of the Greek Religion，1912）等。

Buddhism is the single common thread uniting the Asian world, from India to South-East Asia and through Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan. To guide and inspire believers, innumerable symbols and images were made, beginning in India in the 3rd century BC. This phenomenally diverse tradition includes not only frescoes, relief carvings, colossal statues, silk embroideries and...(展开全部)

The earliest Buddhist art of China can only be understood when seen in relation to a wider area comprising Central Asia and India. This is exactly the purpose of the underlying volume. Presenting the earliest Buddhist art of China in its wider context of the Bactrian and Southern Silk Road regions in Central Asia (1st to 4th century A.D.), the author offers clarifications of th...(展开全部)

"Chogen, The Holy One" deals with the efforts of the Japanese monk Shunjb Chogen (1221-1206) to restore major buildings and works of art lost in civil war. It concentrates on the statues and buildings associated with Chogen and his followers and this study places the visual arts of Japan into the ritual and socio-political context of their time.

While John Whelpton's history of Nepal focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana family autocracy in 1950-51, the early chapters are devoted to the origins of the kingdom and the evolving relations of its diverse peoples. Whelpton portrays a country of extraordinary contrasts, whose history has been buffeted constantly by its neighbors, China and India. Economic an...(展开全部)

Nepal emerged as a unified state over two hundred years ago, centred on the Kathmandu Valley with its two thousand years of urban civilisation. While John Whelpton's history focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana family autocracy in 1950-51, the early chapters are devoted to the origins of the kingdom and the evolving relations of its diverse peoples. By drawing ...(展开全部)