Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia : : Sources and Boundaries / / Lucas den Boer, Elizabeth A. Cecil.

The contributions to this book address a series of 'confrontations'-debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain-and explore the ways in which the legacy of these encounters, and the human...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Beyond Boundaries ; 2
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 259 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Enigma of the Centauress and Her Lover: Investigating a Fifth-century Terracotta Panel from Ahichhatrā
  • 2. Visual Story-Telling in Text and Image: The Nāga as Inhabitant of the Cosmic Ocean and the Netherworld
  • 3. Vyoman: The Sky is the Limit. On the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa's Reworking of the Liṅgodbhava Myth
  • 4. Bronze Temple Bells from the Tibetan Imperial Period: Buddhist Material Culture in Context
  • 5. Nonagonistic Discourse in the Early History of Indian Philosophical Debates: From Brahmodyas to the Mahābhāṣya
  • 6. The Legitimation of an Authoritative Discourse in Jainism
  • 7. Clay Pots, Golden Rings, and Clean Upper Garments: Causality in Jaina Philosophy
  • 8. Charting the Geographies of 'Ju Mi pham rnam rgyal rgya mtsho's Perspectivist Approach to the Two Truths
  • List of Contributors
  • Index