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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Details

Additional Authors

• Lyle, Emily B.
• Traditional Cosmology Society.

Description

220 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Series Statement

Cosmos ; 8

Uniform Title

Cosmos (Edinburgh, Scotland) ; 8.

Subject

• Temples > India
• Temples > China
• Synagogue architecture > Israel
• Mosques
• Religious facilities
• Architecture > India
• Islamic architecture
• Architecture, Asian
• religious buildings
• Architecture
• Architecture, Asian
• Islamic architecture
• Mosques
• Religious facilities
• Synagogue architecture
• Temples
• Islam
• Judentum
• Sakralbau
• China
• India
• Israel
• Indien

Note

• Spine title: Sacred architecture.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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
• 9780748603756

LCCN

93199999

OCLC

• ocm27935251
• 27935251
• SCSB-13633180

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library