Elements of Buddhist Iconography
Tree of Life/Bodhi-tree, lotus, wheel, pillar and throne symbols in early aniconic Buddhist art, traced to Vedic sources; plates.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
- Extent
- 551 passages, 44,528 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1935; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Ananda K. Coomaraswamy †1947)
Contents
- c1 Front matter
- c2 Elements of Buddhist Iconography — 9 parts
- c3 Foreword — 12 parts
- c4 Part I: Tree of Life, Earth-Lotus, and Word-Wheel — 88 parts
- c5 Part II: The Place of the Lotus-Throne — 44 parts
- c6 Notes — 206 parts
- c7 Supplementary Notes and Descriptions — 40 parts
- c8 Plates — 149 parts