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The Kingdom of Bāmiyān: Buddhist Art and Culture of the Hindu Kush
Author Klimburg-Salter, Deborah (著)
EditionFirst Edition
Date1989
Pages226
PublisherIstituto Universitario Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici
LocationNaples, Italy [那不勒斯, 義大利]
SeriesSeries maior (Istituto universitario orientale (Naples, Italy). Seminario di studi asiatici)
Series No.5
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteAssociated project to the Unesco Silk Roads Project.
Table of contentsForeword and Acknowledgements VII
List of Plates XV
List of Abbreviations XIX
Maps 1 and 2 3 & 5

PART 1 The Buddhist Culture of the Hindu Kush

Chapter 1 Introduction 9
Previous Studies: The Art Historical Problem 12

Chapter II Geographical Description 19
The Kingdom of Bamiyan and the Bamiyan Valley 20

Chapter III The History of the Hindu Kush and Adjacent Areas 25
Historical and Geographical Background 26
Sources for the Study of the History of the Hindu Kush 30
Numismatic Evidence for Eastern Afghanistan 33
Archaeological and Artistic Evidence 36
History of the Hindu Kush in the Sixth to Ninth Centuries 38

Chapter IV Religion in the Hindu Kush and Adjacent Areas 43
Forms of Buddhism: Htnayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana 44
Hinayana and Mahayana Exoteric Schools 44
Vajrayana Esoteric School of the Mahayana 44
Buddhist Art and Doctrine 46
Archaeological and Literary Evidence for Buddhism in Central Asia and India 48
Swat and Gandhara 48
Greater Kashmir 50
Central Asia 51
Indian Subcontinent 53
Buddhism in Eastern Afghanistan and the Hindu Kush 54
Literary Evidence for Buddhism in the Hindu Kush 57
The Mahasamghika and the Lokottaravādin 58
The Mahavastu 60
The Sri-mala-sútra 64
The Manjusrimülakalpa (MMK) 65

PART II The Art of the Hindu Kush

Chapter V The Archaeological Sites of the Hindu Kush Sixth to Ninth Centuries 71
Bamiyan and the Buddhist Complex 72
Folādi 73
Kakrak 73
Fondukistān 73
Nigār 74

Chapter VI A Relative Chronology for the Buddhist Art of the Hindu Kush 77
Criteria for a Stylistic Analysis 78
Technique of Painting 79
Style of Figures 79
Color 81
Composition 81
Comparative Stylistic Analysis 82
Phase 1 82
Phase II 83
The Colossal Sculptures of Bamiyan 87
A Relative Chronology for the Art of the Bamiyan Valley 90

Chapter VII Some Buddhist Themes in the Art of the Hindu Kush 93
Iconographic Choices 93
The Mandala 95
Paradise Scenes 97
The Spiritual Career of Sakyamuni 98
The Buddha-to-Be Sakyamuni in the Tusita Heaven 99
The Visual Source 102
The Vitarkamudra 105
The Triple Crescent Crown 106
The Three-Pointed Cape 107
Shoulder Effulgences 108
The Abhiseka Ceremony and the Adaptation of Royal Symbolism 109
Postscript 113
The Iconographic Program at Bāmiyān 114
Maitreya 114
Dīpaṅkara Buddha 115
The Buddha in Mahāparanirvāṇa 117
Bāmiyān: The Iconographic Program in the Main Façade 117

Chapter VIII The Meaning and Function of the Buddhist Complex in the Bāmiyān Valley 121
The Buddhist Pilgrimage Complex 121
State Ceremonial at Bāmiyān: The Pañcavārşika 123
Courtly Traditions in the Hindu Kush 127
Pre-Islamic Society in the Kingdom of Bāmiyān 130
The Function 134

Chapter IX Conclusion 137

Descriptive Catalogue of the Buddhist Sites of the Hindu Kush 141
Cave G 141
Cave GI 143
Cave T 144
Cave F 144
Cave Complex Surrounding the 38-meter Buddha 146
Cave Complex A 146
Cave Complex B 148
Cave Complex C 149
Cave Complex D 152
The Niche of the 38-meter Buddha (East Great Buddha) 154
The 38-meter Buddha Sculpture 157
Cave S 157
Cave M 158
Niche E 159
Cave K 160
Cave Complex K 161
Cave Complex J 162
Niche H 164
Cave N 165
Niche 'i' 167
The Niche of the 55-meter Buddha (West Great Buddha) 169
The 55-meter Buddha Sculpture 172
The Caves at the Base of the 55-meter Buddha 173
The Caves above the 55-meter Buddha 175
Kakrak 175
Folādi 176
Fondukistān 77
Niche K 178
Niche C 179
Niche D 179
Niche E 181
Nigār (Previously Called Dokhtar-i-Noshirwan) 183
The Painting 184

Appendix I - The Kyoto University Archaeological Mission to Central Asia: Enumeration of
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