جزییات کتاب
Akira Shimada's book is a welcome and timely addition to the nearly two centuries of research on the Amaravati Mahastupa (great stupa), and a more recent but expanding literature on the archaeology of early historic South Indian Buddhism. The study of this remarkable Buddhist monument presents a rather unique case for archaeologists, epigraphers, and social, religious, and art historians. Once a massive and beautifully adorned stupa, built and maintained by generations of early South Indian Buddhists, it was abandoned sometime during the fourteenth century a.d.
درباره نویسنده
شیمادا در استان شیزوئوکا در کشور ژاپن واقع شدهاست که دارای جمعیت ۹۵٬۷۶۲ نفر و مساحت ۱۹۵٫۴۰ کیلومتر مربع با تراکم جمعیت ۴۹۰ نفر در کیلومترمربع است و در تاریخ ۰۱۹۴۸-۰۱-۰۱ ۱ ژانویه ۱۹۴۸ به عنوان شهر شناخته شد.