Asia
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Precious Treasures from the Diamond Throne: Finds from the Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment [Paperback]
Sam van Schaik (Editor); Daniela De Simone (Editor); Gergely Hidas (Editor); Michael Willis (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592289
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 228
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The Mahābodhi temple at Bodhgayā in eastern India has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation and attained enlightenment. The site, soon identified as the ‘Diamond Throne’ or vajrāsana, became a destination for pilgrim... .... Learn More -
Chinese Museums: Strategies and Promotion of Contemporary Chinese Art [Paperback]
Ornella De Nigris (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9788869771439
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Art
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Over the last 30 years, the Chinese system of art museums has enjoyed an unprecedented pace of development. Following a general and ongoing renovation of China’s entire system of national art institutions, there has been an impressive proliferatio... .... Learn More -
Kushan Mystique [Hardback]
David Jongeward (Author); Joe Cribb (Foreword)
£30.00ISBN: 9781912667468
Published by : Spink Books
Kushan Mystique is in part a personal narrative, and in part a profile of people and places encountered as a result of David Jongeward’s Kushan research and travels. The story begins in a lakeside cottage in northern California where the auth... .... Learn More
Resistance at the Edge of Empires: The Archaeology and History of the Bannu Basin from 1000 BC to AD 1200 [Hardback]
Cameron A. Petrie (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781785703034
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bannu Archaeological Project
Volume: 3
From 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan... .... Learn More
Steppe Dreams: Time, Mediation, and Postsocialist Celebrations in Kazakhstan [Hardback]
Margarethe Adams (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822946144
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
Steppe Dreams concerns the political significance of temporality in Kazakhstan, as manifested in public events and performances, and its reverberating effects in the personal lives of Kazakhstanis. Like many holidays in the post-Soviet sphere, pub... .... Learn More
Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives [Hardback]
Jeffrey D. Lerner (Editor); Yaohua Shi (Editor)
£55.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789254709
Published by : Oxbow Books
In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of ... .... Learn More
The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia [Hardback]
Scott C. Levi (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780822945970
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
In the first half of the eighteenth century, Central Asia’s Bukharan Khanate descended into a crisis from which it would not recover. Bukharans suffered failed harvests and famine, a severe fiscal downturn, invasions from the north and the south, ... .... Learn More
Qala'at al-Bahrain 3: The Western and Southern City Walls and Other Excavations [Hardback]
Flemming Højlund (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9788793423282
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: Jutland Archaeological Society Publications
The capital of ancient Dilmun, Qala’at al-Bahrain, the most important archaeological site in East Arabia, was excavated in 1954-1978 by a Danish expedition from Moesgaard Museum. The first two volumes were published in 1994 and 1997, dealing with ... .... Learn More
The Compassionate Bodhisattva: Unique Southeast Asian images of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara [Paperback]
Sofia Sundström (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9789088906176
Published by : Sidestone Press
Southeast Asia has a long history with Buddhism that continues to the present day. Centuries ago, Buddhism spread to various areas of Southeast Asia, where some of the greatest Buddhist images and monuments were produced over 1,000 years ago. Thes... .... Learn More
Hindu Kingship Rituals: Power Relation and Historical Evolution [Hardback]
Nawaraj Chaulagain (Author)
£81.00ISBN: 9781463240479
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Harvard Oriental Series - Opera Minora
Volume: 11
In recent decades, Nepal has witnessed a dramatic shift from its ancient form of Hindu kingship to a federal republican democratic secular order, with the official dissolution of monarchy in 2008. This study deals with the religious lives of the Ś... .... Learn More
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