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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Plates bright and vivid.Pages in good condition. Hinge/binding loose. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> A renowned meeting ground of Buddhist Asia Nalanda was also a prolific centre of artistic output imbued with remarkable aes- thetic vision and innovative skill. The book is the first major study of the Buddhist sculpture from the site in multiple media like stone metal and stucco. It provides a succinct account of the development of plastic from basing on a solid foundation of iconographic and stylistic analysis. After tracing its Kusana- Gandhara and Gupta-Sarnath heritage as well as by touching upon its legacy on the art of Tibet in particular the author has aptly char- acterized Nalanda as the seed-bed for later Buddhist art and iconography of a far wider region beyond the geographical boundary of eastern India. (MP)