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This Pioneering Book Is The First Full-length Study Of The Matha, Or Hindu Monastery, Which Developed In India At The Turn Of The First Millennium. Rendered Monumentally In Stone, The Matha Represented More Than Just An Architectural Innovation: It Signaled The Institutionalization Of Asceticism Into A Formalized Monastic Practice, As Well As The Emergence Of The Guru As An Influential Public Figure. With Entirely New Primary Research, Tamara I. Sears Examines The Architectural And Archaeological Histories Of Six Little-known Monasteries In Central India And Reveals The Relationships Between Political Power, Religion, And The Production Of Sacred Space. This Important Work Of Scholarship Features Scrupulous Original Measured Drawings, Providing A Vast Amount Of New Material And A Much-needed Contribution To The Fields Of Asian Art, Religious Studies, And Cultural History. In Introducing New Categories Of Architecture, This Book Illuminates The Potential Of Buildings To Reconfigure Not Only Social And Ritual Relationships But Also The Fundamental Ontology Of The World.-- Introduction: Encountering The Monastery -- In Search Of Drunken Peacocks : Mapping Monastic Histories From Fores

Author

Sears, Tamara I., author

Publisher

New Haven [Connecticut]: Yale University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300198447

Subjects

Art, Arts