Great Buddhist Stupas from the Indian Subcontinent
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09 Dec
13 Dec
2019
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Buddhist Aesthetics
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Pia Brancaccio
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Image: Relief Depicting Worship at the Saidu Sharif Stupa, from Butkara III, Swat
Credit: Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan
Stupas are the quintessential Buddhist monuments: they are not simple relic repositories and places of devotion, but receptacle of cultural memories and hubs of Buddhist identities. The lecture series will explore in details stupa sites and related artistic remains spanning from the Gangetic Valley to the Deccan, from ancient Gandhara to Sri Lanka to better understand the richness and diversity of early Buddhism, its art and communities across South Asia.
Day 1: The Stupa and the Buddha: Monuments from the Gangetic Valley
Day 2: Bharhut and Sanchi: The Blossoming of Early Buddhist Communities
Day 3: Taxila’s Dharamarajika and the great stupas of the Swat Valley, Pakistan: Buddhist Art and Patronage in the Northwest
Day 4: Amaravati and Kanaganahalli: Buddhism in the Deccan
Day 5: The Stupas of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka
Duration -
December 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 2019
Timing: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Fees
Rs. 4,000 (For a 50% student discount, write to info@jp-india.org)
Registrations Closed
Pia Brancaccio
Pia Brancaccio is Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA. Her research focuses on early Buddhist art and cross-cultural exchange in South Asia with a regional emphasis on the visual cultures of the Deccan Plateau and ancient Gandhara. She has published extensively on the Buddhist caves in Western Deccan, including a monograph on The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad (2010) and the edited volume Living Rock (2013), and has recently expanded her interests to ancient Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean exchange networks. Pia has also written on architecture, visual narratives, artistic workshops and the multicultural fabric of Buddhism in Gandhara, and co-edited the book Gandharan Buddhism: Art, Archaeology (2006). She is currently involved in a research project on Ancient Buddhism in Konkan.