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Buddhist Art, Architecture, Iconography & Script
Paper III
Full Marks 100
Teaching Hrs. 150
Objectives
The basic objective of this course is to provide elementary
knowledge of Buddhist art,
architecture, iconography and its related scripts from the beginning
emphasizing to the main features of its development stages of the
different historic periods. Divided into parts and 10 units, the present
course aims to introduce the students with knowledge on the various
forms and patterns of Nepalese Buddhist art, architecture, iconography
and its paleography with their importance to the development of the
Buddhist culture in
Unit 1 History of Art
15
1.1
Sources for the studies on Buddhist art, architecture, iconography and
the scripts i.e, (i) Archaeological (ii) Literary
1.2
Originand Development of Buddhist art in
1.3
Introduction to the early Buddhist art under the Mourya, Sung, Kushanas
and Gupta with special reference to
1.4
Buddhist arts in
1.5
Newar Buddhist art tradition with special reference to the Pala and Sena
school of
arts
Unit 2 Sculpture
2.1 Introduction and the general features of the early Nepalese
sculptures.
2.2 Chief features of the Malla sculptures: stone, wood and
bronze.
2.3 Buddhist metal reposes art of
2.4 Buddhist terracotta and clay sculptures
Unit 3 Painting
3.1 Sources and introduction to the Buddhist paintings of
3.2 A history of wall painting in and its tradition in
3.3 General Introduction to the manuscript paintings: Gata and
Granaha Citra.
3.4 chief feature of Poubha painting with special reference to
the Pata, Thangka
and the Mandala paintings of
3.5 Introduction of Mandala.
Unit 4 History of Bahal and Bahil Architecture
15
4.1 Sources and history of the Buddhist Architecture in
4.2 General features of Vihara, Baha and bahils of Nepal Mandala.
4.3 Chief features of the Medieval mahavihars of Nepal Mandala:
4.3.1 Rudravarna Mahavihara of Patan
4.3.2 Hiranyavarna Mahavihara of patan
4.3.3 Paravata Mahavihara or Itum Bahal of
4.3.4 Kirtipunya Mahavihara of Lagan Bahal Kathmandu
4.3.5 Laskadyaoya Baha of Bhaktapur
4.3.6 Pasupati Baha of Bhaktapur
4.4 Bahils Architecture of
thambahila of
Unit 5 Stupa, chaitya, Gompa and Chortens
15
5.1 Sources, origin and development of Stupa and Chaitya
architecture.
5.2 Chief features of Mouryan and pre-Mouryan Stupas.
5.2.1 Svoyambhumahachaitya, Bouddhanath chaitya, Dhanadwon chaitya,
Tukanbahal and Yatkha Bahal chaityas of
5.3 General feature of the Tibetan monasteries: Nyingmapa,
Kagyupa, Sakya pa,
Gelugpa.
5.4 Meaning, symbolism and general features of the eight
auspicious chortens.
Unit 6 Buddhist Shrines of Hybrid Architecture
15
6.1 Introduction to the Buddhist Hybrid architectures.
6.2 Introduction to the shrines of Padmapanilokesvara of tabahal,
Bungamati of
patan, Anandadilokesvara of Chovara, Srimdaryavalokesvara of
Janabahal and Sristilantalokesvara of nala.
6.3 The chief feature of Sikhara style temple with special
reference to the
Mahabouddha
6.4 Four Yogini temples of sankhu, Pharping, Vijesvari and
guhyasvari.
6.5 Introduction to the Buddhist shrines of Nagarjuna-hill,
Mahamandapa,
Manichuda and Namobuddha.
Unit 7 Buddhist iconography
15
7.1
Source, introduction, history of the images worship and iconic tems
7.2
Iconic concept of Buddha and Bhodhisattva image
7.3
Development of the symbolic terms in Mahayana anda Vajrayana
7.4
Iconography of Panca Tathagat: Vairocana, akshobhya, Ratnasambhava,
Amitabha, Amoghasiddhi
7.5
Iconography of the five protective Goddess: Mamaki, Pandura, Locana,
Tara and Vajradhatvisvari
Unit 8 Popular Monastic
iconography of
8.1
Iconography of Adi-Buddha, Vajradhara.
8.2
The cult icon of Dipankara Buddha in
8.3
The cult icon of Avalokitesvara with special reference to the Padmapani,
Sadksahri and sahasrabhuja lokesvara.
8.4
The tradition and icon of Manjusree, Vasundhara Prajnaparamita in Nepal
Mandala
8.5
The four Lokapalas: Dhritaarastra, virudhaka, virudhaka, Virupaksha and
Vaisravana.
Unit 9 Buddhist Scripts
Sources and introduction to the Buddhist Script under the
context of the antiquity of writing
Mediums of writings: stone, metal, palm leaf, birch, wood, paper, skin
etc.
Introduction to the style of Brahmi and Kharosthi script and its origin
and popularity in Bddhism
Ancient Nepalese script and the development to the Bhujinmola, Pracalita
Nepal Bhasha script, Ranjana.
Intrroduction to the Tibetan
script of U-meh and U-chan.
Unit 10 Transcription
(Students are encouraged to pactice and transliterate the
devanagari into the prescribed script)
Brahmi pillar scripts of Niglihava and Lumbini.
Licchavi inscription of Cabahil, Capatola IIanani inscription of Patan,
Pasupati inscription of Rudramalladeva (Bhujin mola)
Svayambhu inscription of Pratapmalla. (Pracalita
Langan Bahal inscription of Parthivendra Malla (Ranjana)
Reference
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