TY - BOOK AU - Himanshu Prabha Ray AU - Himanshu Prabha Ray TI - Sacred landscapes in Asia: : shared traditions, multiple histories SN - 9788173047268 U1 - 700.95 PY - 2007/// CY - New Delhi . PB - : Manohar Publishers & Distributors : Distributed in South Asia by Foundation Books KW - Art, Asian--Indic influences KW - Aesthetics, Comparative KW - Architecture N1 - Aesthetic theories underlying Asian performing arts / Kapila Vatsyayan -- Śūnya : immanent and transcendent : investigating meanings of void through art's space / Sung-Min Kim -- The stūpa : symbolizing religious architecture in Asia / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- Merchants, Ghazis, and the inception of an "Islamic" architecture in South Asia / Alka Patel -- Marks and symbols of professionals on Mughal monuments / Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi -- Spatial organization of Paharpur Buddhist establishment / Sandrine Gill -- A study of living culture : typo-morphology of vernacular traditional houses in Kerala / Indah Widiastuti -- Avalokiteśvara as continuing theogony of interiorization / Lokesh Chandra -- The flying messenger / Kapila Vatsyayan -- The Saiva pantheon in Indonesia : acculturation/assimilation/convergence? / Nilima Chitgopekar -- Kāla-Makara-Toranas : Javanese expressions of a shared motif / Parul Pandya Dhar -- Questioning narrativity and inscribed labels : Buddhist Bharhut, Sannati, and Borobudur / Vidya Dehejia -- Understanding the painted Jatakas in ancient India and Sri Lanka / M. Somathilake -- Crown jewels of Buddhist art : comparisons between Ajanta and Dunhuang / Chang Wen-Ling -- A system of knowledge transmission : the narrative in Indonesia (c. AD 700-900) / Malini Saran -- A comparative study of the Wayang Kulit and the Tolpavakoothu shadow puppet theatre / I. Nyoman Sedana N2 - Contributed articles emanating from two conferences held at India International Centre, New Delhi on April 26-27, 2004, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla on October 25-27, 2004; part of IIC-Asia Project ER -