In the Buddhist faith of all times, the stupa is venerated as Buddha himself. It is conceived as his nirmana-kaya “created body†or dharma-kaya “body of Lawâ€. In the course of history its structure has followed the evolution of the theological concept of the Buddha. When in Mahayana the supreme Buddha is endowed with multiple manifestations, such as the Five Jainas, Vairocana at the zenith,. Aksobhya in the east, Ratna-sambhava in the south, Amitabha in ...
Mireille Benisti had made the study of stylistics of early Khmer and Indian art her life work. The present volume contains translations of Benisti’s major publications dealing with Khmer art. The main artaicle is a study of the relations between early Khmerr and Indian art, i.e. 7th and 8th centuries, the crucial period of the introduction of Indian religion and other components of Indian culture in the first well-organized kingdom of Khmer land. She has ...