Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats
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Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats
Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats - Paperback is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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This guidebook focuses on the rock-cut Buddhist monasteries near Nashik and Junnar, and at Karla, Bhaja, Bedsa, Kondane and Kanheri, all in western Maharashtra. These magnificent shrines and dwellings, known as chaityas and viharas, were cut into the basalt cliffs of the Western Ghats more than 2,000 years ago. They are located near to trade routes that wound their way through mountain passes, linking ports on the Arabian Sea with cities in the Deccan hinterland. Merchants travelling along these routes, together with local kings and queens and guilds of craftsperson's, financed these excavations and supported the everyday life of the monks and nuns who resided there in ancient times.Co-authored by George Michel and Gethin Rees, and illustrated with splendid, newly commissioned photographs by Surendra Kumar, this is the first guidebook to describe the sites listed above. The monuments are arranged according to itineraries to encourage visitors from Mumbai, Pune and Nashik to discover these splendid vestiges of the Deccan’s ancient Buddhist period.
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Buddhism, Jaico, Michell and Rees, Religion & Philosophy, Zen Buddhism
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