- Victoria & Albert Museum
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Louis Copplestone
Victoria and Albert Museum, Asian Department, Department Member
- Buddhist Architecture, South Asian History, South Asian Art, Tantric Buddhism, Himalayan Art, South and Southeast Asian Temple Architecture, and 23 moreHindu Temple Architecture, Buddhist monasticism, Buddhist monasteries, Indian Temple Architecture, Indian architecture, Southeast Asian Art and Architecture, History of Indian Temple Architecture, Historiography, Southeast Asian Archaeology, Southeast Asian Art, Architectural History of South East Asia, Angkor Wat, Bagan period (Archaeology), Borobudur, Sailendra, Pala Dynasty, Buddhist Studies, Newar Buddhism, History of Art, Newar Buddhist Art, History of Nepal, Buddhist art and architecture, Buddhist Archaeology, and Archaeology of Bangladeshedit
- I'm a curator in the Asia Department at the Victoria & Albert Museum. I'm interested in the history of art and architecture in southern Asia, archaeology, and the history of collecting. I completed a PhD under the supervision of Professor Jinah Kim at Harvard University (2024) and was a Daiwa Fellow at the Tokyo National Museum (2015-2017). I received for an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2015) and a BA from SOAS, University of London (2014).edit
This article discusses the relationship between sacred images and architecture in medieval eastern India. I compare the visual programme of a monastery described in Kuladatta’s Kriyāsaṃgrahapañjikā, a circa 11thcentury Buddhist treatise... more
This article discusses the relationship between sacred images and
architecture in medieval eastern India. I compare the visual programme of a monastery described in Kuladatta’s Kriyāsaṃgrahapañjikā, a circa 11thcentury Buddhist treatise on rituals (kriyā), with a stone sculpture at the Varendra Research Museum, and a recently excavated monastery site in northern Bangladesh. This comparison allows me to explore the architectural development of Buddhist monasteries into the medieval period, and particularly the character of the temples within them. My observations in this article are of interest to the history of Buddhist architecture and temple religion in the early centuries of the second millennium CE
architecture in medieval eastern India. I compare the visual programme of a monastery described in Kuladatta’s Kriyāsaṃgrahapañjikā, a circa 11thcentury Buddhist treatise on rituals (kriyā), with a stone sculpture at the Varendra Research Museum, and a recently excavated monastery site in northern Bangladesh. This comparison allows me to explore the architectural development of Buddhist monasteries into the medieval period, and particularly the character of the temples within them. My observations in this article are of interest to the history of Buddhist architecture and temple religion in the early centuries of the second millennium CE
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Overview of Newar Buddhism and its Art: History and Community in the Kathmandu.