Unfolding A Mandala: The Buddhist Cave Temples at Ellora (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies)
By Geri H. Malandra.
Description
Ellora is one of the great cave temple sites of India, with thirty-four major Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain monuments of the late sixth to tenth centuries A. D. This book describes the Buddhist caves at Ellora and places them in the context of Buddhist art and iconography.Ellora’s twelve Buddhist cave temples, dating from the early seventh to the early eighth centuries, preserve an unparalleled one-hundred-year sequence of architectural and iconographical development. They reveal the evolution of a Buddhist mandala at sites in other regions often considered “peripheral” to the...
ISBN(s)
0791413551, 9780791413555
