Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: : Their Plan and Its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life
Published by Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 1982
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: HERMITAGE BOOKS, ABAA, Denver, CO, U.S.A.HERMITAGE BOOKS, ABAA
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Condition: Used
US$ 450.00
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SACRED BLUEPRINTS This landmark folio by Johannes?Prip?Møller offers an unprecedented architectural?historical investigation of Chinese Buddhist monastic sites, integrating ground?plans, photographs and textual analysis to reveal how spatial design underpins monastic ritual and daily life. Spanning nearly four hundred pages and including folding plans of temple complexes such as Huiju?Temple, the volume remains a foundational reference for scholars of Chinese Buddhist architecture, religious studies and heritage conservation. From the library of Paul W. Kroll, retired Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Fine, internally clean with tight and square binding. Quarter tan buckram, titled in gilt, over blue pseudo-morocco boards.
Seller Inventory # 237429
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: : Their Plan and Its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life
- Author
- Prip-Møller, J.
- Publisher
- Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong
- Publication year
- 1982
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Color and Black-and-white photographs and illustrations, full-page and fold-out architectural drawings, four oversized fold-out architectural drawings in rear pocket.
- Edition
- Third printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture/Design, Religion & Theology
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