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The Journal of the Greater India Society July 1936

1936

The Barabudur being both the cosmic and the royal mountain the personage who sits on its top must be the summit of the religious and of the political hierarchy. [...] The statue of the Great Buddha was inpired by the passage translated above from the BommOkYa; the details on the petals inspired by other sutras and giistras are there to show the relation of the whole world from here below up to the Great Enlightened Deity.3 The whole monument proves that an exact symmetry reigned between the state organization and the religious comology in the Japanese B [...] The Chinese messenger Tcheou Ta-kouan speaking of the Bayon which is in the centre of Angkor the capital of the old Cambodia said : To mark the centre of the kingdom there is a gold tower surrounded by more than twenty stone towers."' The Bayon then must have been to use Heingeldern's own expression the magical centre of the kingdom." Erected in the centre of Angkor this temple is made [...] In the ground of the big tower the idol which was worshipped in the centre of the Bayon has been found : a Buddha three meters high in which M. Ccedes recognizes the image of the Devaraja that is to say of the God-King. [...] In the Sivite sanctuaries the Devaraja was the great litiga of the kingdom; worshipped in the central temple of the capital he personfied both the king of the gods and the king of men.
philosophy religion
Pages
98
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120050
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v U.N. Ghoshal view
Contributions from the Mahavamsa to our knowledge of the Mediaeval Culture of Ceylon
139-157 Wilhelm Geiger view
The Terminal Stupa of the Barabudur
158-169 J. Przyluski view
Kunjarakunjadesa of the Changal Inscription
170-177 B. Chhabra view
Veda and Avesta
178-187 Batakrishna Ghosh view
Comment and Criticism
188-196 H.B. Sarkar view
Notices of Books
197-i unknown view
Obituary Notice
211-214 E.E. Obermiller view
Extracts from the Annual Report of the Greater India Society (1935-36)
214-218 unknown view
Publications of Cognate Interest in Other Journals
219-223 unknown view
Books Received
224-226 unknown view
Backmatter
i-iii unknown view

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