The Symbolism of the Stupa

Download or read book The Symbolism of the Stupa written by Adrian Snodgrass and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1992 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his preface to The Symbolism of the Stupa Prof. Craig Reynolds writes "The stupa is a symbolic form that pullulates throghout south southeast and East Asia. In its Indian manifestations it is an extreme case in terms of architectural function: it has no usable has a basic simplicity. In this state of the art studt Adrian Snodrass reads the stupa as a cultural artifact. The mounment concretizes metaphysical principles and generates multivalent meanings in ways that can be articulated with lite