Buddhism : Aesthetics, Time and Quintessence

Contents: Preface. 1. Be your own lamp, O Ananda. 2. Goddesses in Buddhism. 3. Alexander Csoma de Koros and Buddhology. 4. Buddhist values and Confucian mindset of China. 5. The votive Bodhisattvas of Tun-huang. 6. Joseph Needham’s history of sciences in China. 7. Interactive diversities: culture and civilization. 8. Journey across the mindscape of Buddhism in China. 9. Lives of early Buddhist masters in the catalogue of Seng-Yu. 10. Morning calm and the pensive beyond. 11. (Article in Hindi). 12. Hindu Gods and Goddesses rooted in Japan. 13. India and Japan: interflow of culture. 14. The rising sun, the blooming lotus, and the enlightening Sensei. 15. Blossoming of values. 16. The hidden base in the cosmosophy of the Borobudur. 17. Candi Mendut: symbol of the piety and power of the Sailendras. 18. Indo-European: a construct of imperialism. 19. Scientific terminology for Indian languages. 20. Musical notes in the Carya-giti-kosa. 21. Varna-jati system. 22. Saiva and Sakta vision. 23. The Kafirs of Afghanistan. 24. Paganism as a metagrid of the future. 25. Paganism as the divine within. 26. Culture and civilization. 27. Panchsheel: a humane international order. 28. Globalization to eurocracy. 29. Harmony through theodiversity. 30. Monocentrism versus polycentrism. 31. Helena Roerich: roots and renaissance. 32. Mysticism and the art of Nicholas Roerich. 33. Self-mage and counter-image. 34-38 Articles are in Hindi. Index.

This volume contains the minor writings of Prof. Lokesh Chandra on Buddhism, the role of women therein, and the opening up of the vast Buddhist literature in the Tibetan Canon. He goes on to a personal narrative of his sinological studies, followed by identification of the votive banners of Tun-huang and the Karma-vibhanga. Culture and civilization as interactive diversities in the Sino-Indian context, the lives of early Buddhist masters in the catalogue of Seng-yu (445-518), and the role of Buddhism in creating the state of Korea and her alphabet. Hindu Gods and Goddesses in Japan, and the role of the Lotus Sutra in contemporary Japan. A new consideration of the conceptual architectonics of the Borobudur, and the reliefs of the Candi Mendut embodying the polycentric approach of Buddhism. Indo-European as a construct of imperialism, scientific terminology for Indian languages, iconics of melodies (raga and rupa), the varna-jati system, the Kafirs of Afghanistan, paganism, technosphere and psychosphere, neo-classical art as leaves of language and flowers of the brush, counter-image versus self-image: a vast range of language, art, iconography, and the meta-space of culture in its widest sense are covered in this work.