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100			_aMarshall, John
245		0	_aThe Buddhist Art of Gandhara: _bThe Story of the Early School, Its Birth, Growth and Decline _cby John Marshall
250			_aReprint Edition in 2008
260			_aKarachi
260			_bRoyal Book Company
260			_c2008
300			_axvii, 111 p., : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aReprint of the 2008 ed.
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"About two thousand years ago, the land named Gandhara on the west banks of the Indus fell successively under the domination of the Greeks, the Sakas and the Parthians. This book gives an account of the school of art which formed itself under these widely divergent cultures. The early Gandhara school is chiefly notable in providing the earliest works of art in which the Buddha was represented in bodily form. Before this, he has always been shown symbolically; the characteristic and now familiar Buddha image was developed from the work of the early Gandhara sculptors." "Sir John Marshall begins by analysing the formative influences of Gandhara art, its relationship to the early school of Central India and Hindustan, and the extent of its debt to the Greeks. He then traces the history of its development, in a remarkable and carefully chosen series of illustrations. The text is in the form of a commentary on these illustrations; the reader can thus share the author's extensive knowledge of the Gandhara school while observing for himself its growth and decline." "Since it deals with the birth of their religious art as it exists today, this book must be of interest to a great many people in Buddhist countries. It will also be of great value to oriental historians and those concerned with Eastern art in general." _b--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
650			_aGandhara _vart
650			_aBuddhism _vsculpture
650			_asitting room _v classics thesis
650			_achinese-history-iconography-arch
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