The Hermit's Hut : : Architecture and Asceticism in India /

The Hermit's Hut : : Architecture and Asceticism in India / / Kazi K. Ashraf; ed. by Xing Ruan, Ronald G. Knapp.

The Hermit's Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is typically considered separate from ascetici...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
VerfasserIn:
Ashraf, Kazi K.,
HerausgeberIn:
Knapp, Ronald G.,
Ruan, Xing,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
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سنة النشر:2013
اللغة:English
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وصف مادي:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 105 illus.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Architecture of Asceticism
  • 1. Asceticism and Architecture
  • 2. Home in the Ascetic Imagination
  • 3. The Buddha's House
  • 4. The Two Houses: Body and Building in the Ascetic Imagination
  • 5. Asceticism and the Primitive Hut
  • 6. A Hut with Many Meanings
  • 7. The End of Architecture
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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