Globalization and Gandhāra art

Lakshminarayanan, Ashwini ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-5110 2023. Globalization and Gandhāra art. Autiero, Serena and Cobb, Matthew A., eds. Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 226-244.

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Abstract

This chapter deals with two examples of Gandhāran art depicting episodes from the life of the Buddha Shakyamuni. These motifs were recreated in the cave painting of the oasis of Kuča, situated along the northern branch of the so-called Silk Roads in the Tarim Basin region (Chinese Central Asia, now in the Xingjiang province). The first section of this chapter engages with the archaeological context in Gandhāra and Kuča, focussing on their relationship during the first centuries CE. The second section lays out how iconography can be analysed within this framework with two examples: male figures as depicted in the lifting of the elephant episode, and the depiction of a nun.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780367560577
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 April 2024
Last Modified:	16 Apr 2024 09:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/167816

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