Buddhist Buildings - Ancient Chinese Architecture Series

Wei, Ran

ISBN 10: 321183009X / ISBN 13: 9783211830093

Published by Springer-Verlag 2000, Wien / Vienna & New York, 2000

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200 pages, 157 beautiful illustrations. In the original card box. Still shrinkwrapped. The Indian temple styles are combined with traditional Chinese architectural forms in the Buddhist buildings of China, to provide an impressive symbiosis of cultures. With the spread and integration of Buddhism with Confucianism, devotional buildings underwent an evolution. Numerous pagodas, temples, and grottos with statues of Buddha and other gods have survived. The Chinese Buddhist temples were organized around courtyards and verandas with a central pagoda surrounded by smaller houses for the monks. There are also two main categories of grotto temples cut into hillsides: Phil, based on a square plan, and the horseshoe-shaped Shiite temples. 321183009X Large 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Buddhist Buildings - Ancient Chinese Architecture Series
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag 2000, Wien / Vienna & New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 321183009X
• ISBN 13: 9783211830093
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First English Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture
  • Oriental Arts

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Synopsis

With the spread and integration of Buddhism with Confucianism, devotional buildings underwent an evolution, of which numerous pagodas, temples and grottos with statues of Buddha and other gods have survived. The Chinese Buddhist temples were organized around courtyards and verandas with a central pagoda surrounded by smaller houses for the monks. There are also two main categories of grotto temples cut into hillsides: Phil, based on a square plan, and the horseshoe-shaped Shiite temples.

Synopsis

Indian temple styles are combined with traditional Chinese architectural forms in the Buddhist buildings of China to provide an impressive symbiosis of cultures. With the spread and integration of Buddhism with Confucianism, devotional buildings underwent an evolution. Numerous pagodas, temples and grottos with statues of Buddha and other gods have survived. The Chinese Buddhist temples were organized around courtyards and verandas with a central pagoda surrounded by smaller houses for the monks. There are also two main categories of grotto temples cut into hillsides: Phil, based on a square plan, and the horseshoe-shaped Shiite temples.