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BUDDHIST ART AND ARCHITECTURE
"Dr. Fisher . . . is to be congratulated for having covered the less familiar field
of Buddhist art and architecture so concisely and clearly."
"A new, authoritative and well illustrated history in the publisher's valuable World of Art series."
—Interior Design
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Buddhism
is the single common thread uniting the Asian world, from Indian to
Southeast Asia and through Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan.
To guide and inspire believers, innumerable symbols and images were
made, beginning in India in the third century BC. This phenomenally
diverse tradition includes not only frescoes and relief carvings but
also rock-cut shrines with a thousand Buddhas, the glorious stupas
of Southeast Asia and the pagodas of the Far East, and the massive
"mandala in stone" of Borobudur in Java. Robert E. Fisher eloquently
describes all the Buddhist schools and cultures and explains their
imagery, from Tibetan cosmic diagrams and Korean folk art to early
Sri Lankan sites and Japanese Zen gardens.