Symphony in Stone: Festivities in Early Buddhism
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788181820365
Length
ix+141p., Tables; Plates; Maps; Index; Bibliography; 26cm.
Subjects
Early Buddhism i.e. the Theravada doctrine, as we know it today is considered synonymous with renunciation, austerity and a very severe monastic code, which strictly forbade through its canons any kinds of festivities. Contrary to popularly projected view and accepted beliefs, one does find in the sculptured delineations associated with early Buddhist architecture and contemporaneous Buddhist literature. Evidence and references, albeit marginal, to dance and ...
