1st Edition
Sacred Traces British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia
By Janice Leoshko
Copyright 2003
184 Pages
by
Routledge
In his novel Kim, in which a Tibetan pilgrim seeks to visit important Buddhist sites in India, Rudyard Kipling reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the discovery of the importance of Buddhism in India's past. Janice Leoshko, a scholar of South Asian Buddhist art uses Kipling's account and those of other western writers to offer new insight into the priorities underlying... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; On studying Indian Buddhist art; Identifying the sacred geography of Indian Buddhism; Determining the images of sacred Buddhist geography; Defining the later images of eastern India; A postcript on seeing sacred images; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Janice Leoshko
'The book is a valuable contribution to the emerging body of literature that examines approaches to material culture in order to reassess the British encounter with South Asia.' Pika Ghosh, CAA Reviews
'... slim, elegantly produced, amply illustrated monograph by a scholar who is a specialist on the Buddhist art and architecture of eastern India.' Tapati Guha-Thakurta, South Asian Studies
