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- Book Title
- Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings: Architecture and Asceticism in
- ISBN
- 9780300198447
- Item Length
- 1.1in
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Genre
- Architecture, Religion, History
- Topic
- Monasticism, Buildings / Religious, General, History / Medieval, Asia / India & South Asia, Regional
- Item Width
- 0.9in
- Item Weight
- 54.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 300 Pages
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The first major study of the Hindu monastery, a highly complex architectural form in the heart of the Indian subcontinent. This pioneering book is the first full-length study of the matha, or Hindu monastery, which developed in India at the turn of the first millennium. Rendered monumentally in stone, the matha represented more than just an architectural innovation: it signaled the institutionalization of asceticism into a formalized monastic practice, as well as the emergence of the guru as an influential public figure. With entirely new primary research, Tamara I. Sears examines the architectural and archaeological histories of six little-known monasteries in Central India and reveals the relationships between political power, religion, and the production of sacred space. This important work of scholarship features scrupulous original measured drawings, providing a vast amount of new material and a much-needed contribution to the fields of Asian art, religious studies, and cultural history. In introducing new categories of architecture, this book illuminates the potential of buildings to reconfigure not only social and ritual relationships but also the fundamental ontology of the world.
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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300198442
ISBN-13
9780300198447
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175744926
Product Key Features
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Monasticism, Buildings / Religious, General, History / Medieval, Asia / India & South Asia, Regional
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Genre
Architecture, Religion, History
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
1.1in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.9in
Item Weight
54.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Na6002.S43 2014
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"An excellent, original, and valuable work of scholarship at the cutting edge of its field. Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings will make an immense and worthy contribution to the study of Indian architecture in the pre-modern period. Sears is remarkably wide in her scholarship and approach, and the significance of this work reaches well beyond her immediate field to speak also to religious studies and cultural history."--Richard H. Davis, Bard College, "A very important book. Tamara Sears offers a strong and sophisticated argument for alternate bases of religious authority grounded in exceptionally diligent primary fieldwork. Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings will unquestionably make its mark in the reshaping of the field of South Asian art."-Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winner of the 2014 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Architecture and Urban Planning category., "An excellent, original, and valuable work of scholarship at the cutting edge of its field. Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings will make an immense and worthy contribution to the study of Indian architecture in the pre-modern period. Sears is remarkably wide in her scholarship and approach, and the significance of this work reaches well beyond her immediate field to speak also to religious studies and cultural history."-Richard H. Davis, Bard College, "A very important book. Tamara Sears offers a strong and sophisticated argument for alternate bases of religious authority grounded in exceptionally diligent primary fieldwork. Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings will unquestionably make its mark in the reshaping of the field of South Asian art."--Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publication Name
Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings : Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
2013-029233
Dewey Decimal
720.954
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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