Buddhist Arts
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Buddhist Arts
Image Databases
Images and panoramic exploration of the Dunhuang caves produced by the Dunhuang Academy. Website is mostly in Chinese. Warning: Auto-play music.
An online educational resource with over 45,000 images of Himalayan art, from museum, university and private collections throughout the world.
The archive can be browse by iconography, location, material, dynasty/period, and religious category. Each picture has detailed information and can be saved for research use.
"JBAE - Japanese Buddhist Art in European Collections, is a database jointly built by a team of the Research Center of International Japanese Studies of the Hosei University and the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies of the University of Zurich." -- About JBAE.
Focused on Central and Southeast Asian inscriptions found in the period of the Guptas (circa 320-550).
"...contains an edition of Ashoka’s inscriptions." Includes images of the original stone inscriptions where available, as well as the transliteration of the original text and English translations.
