Barabudur: Sketch of a History of Buddhism Based on Archaeological Criticism of the Texts (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts) - Hardcover

Mus, Paul

 
9788120717848: Barabudur: Sketch of a History of Buddhism Based on Archaeological Criticism of the Texts (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts)

Synopsis

The work represents a profound and far-reaching analysis of the ideas, religious aspirations and building techniques which contrbuted to the creation of one of the largest Buddhist edifices in the world. This book is the translation of the forward to a work-loosely focussed on the Barabudur which was published at Hanoi in french in 1935, it is a survey of the Buddhist religious and philosophical concepts in the background of earlier religious and metaphysical traditon in India, as revealed in the Vedic and Upanishads texts

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