The Hermit's Hut: Architecture and Asceticism in India 9780824839130

The Hermit’s Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although

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Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Architecture of Asceticism
1. Asceticism and Architecture
2. Home in the Ascetic Imagination
3. The Buddha’s House
4. The Two Houses: Body and Building in the Ascetic Imagination
5. Asceticism and the Primitive Hut
6. A Hut with Many Meanings
7. The End of Architecture
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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