An unorthodox approach to the study of early Buddhist architecture in India, the author having marshalled the archaeological evidence to prove his two-fold thesis. Firstly, how and why the Buddhist adopted different types of building plans, e.g. elliptical, circular and apsidal in the different periods of their history. Secondly, how the Buddhist architecture was influenced and conditioned by the doctrines adopted by the Buddhist sects and sub-sects.
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The beginning Elliptical structures The stūpa-shrines Taxila Nagarjunakonda