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Ajanta Painting
Author_Janice Leoshko
Bhilsa Topes
British imperial exploration of Buddhist sites
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Buddhist Art
Buddhist Devotees
Buddhist Formula
Buddhist Holy Land
Buddhist Homeland
Buddhist pilgrimage studies
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Chinese Pilgrim
colonial archaeology
Csoma De Koros
Dependent Origination
Eastern India
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Indian Buddhist Art
Indian Museum
James Prinsep
Lahore Museum
museum representation of Buddhism
Nineteenth Century Investigations
nineteenth-century orientalism
Pratapaditya Pal
Rietberg Museum
Sacred Buddhist Geography
sacred geography research
Site's Special Character
South Asian art history
Tapati Guha Thakurta
Tibetan Art
Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Painting
Younghusband Expedition
Product details
- ISBN 9780754601388
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 169 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In his novel Kim, in which a Tibetan pilgrim seeks to visit important Buddhist sites in India, Rudyard Kipling reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the discovery of the importance of Buddhism in India's past. Janice Leoshko, a scholar of South Asian Buddhist art uses Kipling's account and those of other western writers to offer new insight into the priorities underlying nineteenth-century studies of Buddhist art in India. In the absence of written records, the first explorations of Buddhist sites were often guided by accounts of Chinese pilgrims. They had journeyed to India more than a thousand years earlier in search of sacred traces of the Buddha, the places where he lived, obtained enlightenment, taught and finally passed into nirvana. The British explorers, however, had other interests besides the religion itself. They were motivated by concerns tied to the growing British control of the subcontinent. Building on earlier interventions, Janice Leoshko examines this history of nineteenth-century exploration in order to illuminate how early concerns shaped the way Buddhist art has been studied in the West and presented in its museums.
Janice Leoshko, University of Texas-Austin, USA
