ORIGINS OF THE EARLY BUDDHIST CHURCH ART
By Adris Banerji
Honorary Fellow, Sanskrit college Seminar, Calcutta
Sanskrit College
Calcutta
5550/1967/58p
CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Chapter One – Introduction
Chapter Two – Origins of the Imperial Pãtaliputra School
Chapter Three – Nationalistic Revival of Demotic Art
Chapter Four – So, called Indo – hellenistic School of Gandhãra
Chapter Five – Mathura, the Daughter of the Gods – its Art
Chapter Six – Origins of the Cult Image
Index
Addenda and Corrigenda
FOREWORD
The present brochure is an attempt to define the origins and various influences that went to the making of Buddhist Church Art and Architecture. It is now an established fact that since time immemorial various cultural streams have met to form the civilization of the historical period, and even during this period many alien ethnic traditions and cultures have contributed to the growth of the historical civilization.
The author of this brochure, Sri Adris Chandra Banerji, the younger son of that renowned historian, the late Professor Rakhal Das Banerji, and a colleague of mine for over five decades right through the school, college and the University days, is himself a devoted scholar in history and archaeology.
I hope the brochure will commend itself it to the academic world.
SanskritCollege Gauriath Sastri
Calcutta,
January, 1967