Cultural interflow between India and Japan
Chandra, Lokesh
₹ 4200.00
This book chronicles the role of Buddhism in the formation of the state, literature, art, and beginnings of technology in Japan from the sixth century down to our times. From the name of the country as Nippon arising out of the golden light of the rising sun in the Suvarnabhasottama-sutra;down to the Indic sequence of the kana syllabary, or the kanji of the sutras becoming the terminology of the yosai in the 19th century, from the haiku of Basho to the very name of the astounding poet Saigyo Going to the West (i.e. India); and the overwhelming sharing of culture alongside its internalisation as Japanese are recorded herein. Transience of the cherry blossoms, the resonance of temple bells vanishing into sunyata, or the Vice-Admiral of the Japanese navy committing harakiri at the end of the Second World War, scenes from the Mahabharata in the kabuki theatre, Sanskrit mantras, the sprawling homa fires of the yamabushi on;the mountains, gigantic
ISBN 13: 9788177421361
ISBN 10: 8177421360
Year: 2014
Language: ENGLISH
Pages etc.: 389p., (59) pls., (11) col pls., ind., 29cm.
Binding: Hardbound
Subject(s): Fine Arts
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