Research Catalog

Title

Sacred architecture in the traditions of India, China, Judaism and Islam / edited by Emily Lyle.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors

• Lyle, Emily B.
• Traditional Cosmology Society.

Description

220 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Cosmos ; 8

Uniform Title

Cosmos (Edinburgh, Scotland) ; 8.

Subjects

• Temples > India
• Temples > China
• Islamic architecture
• Architecture > India
• Architecture, Asian
• Mosques
• Synagogue architecture > Israel
• Religious buildings > Architecture
• India
• Religious facilities
• China

Contents

Symbology and architectural practice in India / Michael W. Meister -- Cosmogonic motifs in Indian temples / J. McKim Malville -- The Hindu temple : a dynamic microcosm / Adam Hardy -- The symbolism of the central pillars in cave-temples of northwest China / Puay-Peng Ho -- Chinese Buddhist monastic temples as cosmograms / Jeffrey F. Meyer -- Boundary maintenance : territorial altars and areas in rural China / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Dwelling at the centre of the world / C.B. Wilson -- Tabernacle and temple and the cosmos of the Jews / John Onians -- The traditional Hejazi house as a macrocosm / Hisham A.S. Jomah -- The iconography of light in the monuments of Mamluk Cairo / F.B. Flood -- The madrasa of Sultan Hassan in Cairo : a cosmological interpretation / Aly Gabr.

ISBN

0748603751 (pbk) :

LCCN

gb 93015811

OCLC

ocm27935251

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries