Robert Decaroli: 2 books
Haunting the Buddha
Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Early European histories of India frequently reflected colonialist agendas. The idea that Indian society had declined from an earlier Golden Age helped justify the colonial presence. It was said, for example, that modern Buddhism had fallen away from its original identity as a purely rational philosophy...
Image Problems
The Origin and Development of the Buddha's Image in Early South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism�s relationship with figural art as an...