Worldly gurus and spiritual kings - Tamara Sears

Worldly gurus and spiritual kings
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Autor: Tamara Sears

 Wydawnictwo: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300198447
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 304
Data wydania: 2014-07-01
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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 signalled 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 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 innovative and valuable work of scholarship features 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. "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--Richard H. Davis.

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Tamara Sears