Contents: Foreword/Kapila Vatsyayan. 1. Early Buddhist art: some salient features of iconography/K.D. Bajpai. 2. Buddhist wall paintings from India and central Asia and their major themes/P. Banerjee. 3. The date of emergence of Maitreya in the Buddhist art of Gandhara/B.N. Mukherjee. 4. Aviruddha--an epithet of the Buddha, its meaning/Jagannath Agrawal. 5. Role of the lotus sutra in the twenty-first century/Lokesh Chandra. 6. The transformation of the Ardhanarisvara image in Buddhist art/D.C. Bhattacharyya. 7. Dhamnakada Chaitya: its role in the spread of Buddha's preaching, growth of art and religion/I.K. Sarma. 8. Two Buddhist bronzes from Hansi/Devendra Handa. 9. Divinities of knowledge : Hindu-Buddhist/Sudha Sengupta. 10. Introducing Dunhuang cave art/Tan Chung. 11. Lung-man cave inscriptions and the popularity of Maitreya Bodhisattva/Latika Lahiri. 12. Divinity of art in Buddhism/Ngwang Samten. 13. Khotan-Yotkan Terra-cottas in the collection of the National Museum, New Delhi/S.P. Gupta. 14. Sanghol : Kusana Buddhist stupa and sculptures/S.P. Shukla. 15. Horyuji murals and Ajanta/Shashibala. 16. The dated Buddha images of the Gupta period/Ashvini Agrawal. 17. Significance of some Buddhist myths and symbols/Kewal Krishan Mittal. 18. Some aspects of early Buddhist symbolic art/Shailendra Verma. 19. Horyuji murals and Ajanta/Shashibala. 20. A gallery of Buddhist art/G.N. Pant. Appendix: 1. Buddhist art and thought : some observations/M.C. Joshi. 2. Buddhist art and thought : an opinion/R.C. Sharma. Buddhist art and thought : a woven melody/M.N. Deshpande. Illustrations. No. 8278

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