CONTENTS:- Historical Background; Buddhist Sites in Orissa; Female Manifestations and Emanitions; Fertility Deities, Companion deities and pedestal Decoration; Stylistic analysis Brahmanical Parallels and Religious syncretism Animosity.
DESCRIPTION
The present book on Iconography of the Buddhist Sculpture of Orissa utilizes the author's expertise of Orissan Brahmanical Art to develop a similar consistent and reliable iconographic and stylist evolution for the Buddhist Arts of Orissa and its adherence to, or deviation from, surviving textual icono-graphic peculiarities. There is little doubt that Orissa played a major role in the creation, development and dissemination of Buddhist doctrines and concepts throughout India and the Buddhist world, particularly in respect to Vajrayana Buddhism and the iconography of sculptural mandalas. Particular emphasis in this book is placed on the reciprocal influence between Brahmanical and Buddhist Art in Orissa, both religions expanding at the same time in regard to the proliferation of deities and their variant forms, and each apparently competing with the other for patronage and converts.
