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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Ashraf, Kazi K.,
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Knapp, Ronald G.,
Ruan, Xing,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
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Bliain Foilsithe:2013
Teanga:English
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Cur Síos Fisiciúil:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 105 illus.
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Clár Ábhair:
  • 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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