An Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Deities, Demigods, Godlings, Saints & Demons (In 2 Volumes)
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Reprint
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ISBN
8124600201, 9788124600207
Length
xv+1151p., Illustrations Black and White and Colour; 29cm.
Subjects
Beginning with a few aniconic symbols, like foot prints, a throne, the Bo tree or stupas, in the prechristian Indian art, Buddhism came to evolve a variety of picturesque representations of a Self-Existent, Superimmanent Principle: in myriad forms and emanations that range from the superbly magnificent to sheerly grotesque. Endowed with diverse iconographic attributes, Buddhist deities/saints/demons have grown, over the rolling centuries, into bewildering ...
