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基本説明
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Full Description
Sri Lanka takes its place in Asian garden history not only by virtue of its chronicle accounts, inscriptional records and literary descriptions of gardens and natural environments, but even more so on account of the unique survival of the archaeological remains of many planned garden forms, especially from time horizons earlier than those of surviving historic gardens in other South Asian societies and cultures. The Sri Lankan relict gardens are an archaeological phenomenon little seen elsewhere in Asia from a period prior to the 13th century.
Following the journey proposed by Klaus Holzhausen and the authors of this volume, one goes from surprise to surprise. First of all, there's the unsuspected world of the great royal estates: spatial generosity here reflects a local aristocratic civilisation which found in the garden the highest point of its art. Another essential tradition presented in this volume is that of Sri Lanka's monastic gardens. The sheer number of Buddhist monasteries scattered all over the island since almost 2000 years is incredible. Most of these sites contain rather gardens than buildings. Then there's the more complex case of colonial gardens, those magical but often forced amalgams between a self-celebrating culture from outside and the local topography and vegetation. Last but not least - and the volume that Klaus Holzhausen, as a true prophet of the places he has traversed for nearly three decades, makes clear - is the existence of contemporary gardens that have, physically and immediately for those lucky enough to walk through them, an extraordinary force and something to teach the world.
The extremely meticulous way in which Gardens of Sri Lanka has been elaborated and the quality of the iconic and written documentation permit readers to already be there and to discover page after page the existence of another world.
Contents
13 General Introduction
32 Chronology of Sri Lanka's history
33 Map of Sri Lanka
35 Royal Gardens
35 Introduction
36 Anuradhapura
39 Ranmasu Uyana
54 Sigiriya
73 Polonnaruwa
82 A Secondary Lake Surrounding the Promontory?
A Hypothesis
88 Shifting Capitals
89 Kandy
101 Monastic Gardens
101 Introduction
102 Anuradhapura
104 Giri (Hill) Monasteries
119 Centric (Metropolitan) Monasteries
132 Pabbata (Mountain) Vihara
134 Padhanagara Parivena
(Meditation Monasteries)
140 Kaludiya Pokuna Mihintale
152 Ritigala
160 Arankäle
166 The Bodhi Tree Shrine, a Sacred Garden
175 The Colonial Encounter
175 Introduction
178 Atapattu Walawwa
180 The 'Royal' Botanic Garden, Peradeniya
183 The Hakgala Botanic Garden
189 Richmond Castle at Kalutara
193 Roehampton Tea Estate Garden
196 The Girls' School at Uduvil
200 Taprobane at Weligama
205 Modern and Contemporary Gardens
205 Introduction
206 Bevis Bawa's Gardens
206 The Brief Garden
215 The Gardens of the Sigiriya Village Hotel (the older part)
217 Geoffrey Bawa's Gardens
218 Lunuganga
224 The Kandalama Hotel, near Dambulla
229 Laki Senanayake's Gardens
229 Diyabubula (the artist' own garden)
234 The Gardens of the Sigiriya Village Hotel (the second part)
236 The Boulder Garden Hotel
241 Afterword
243 Bibliography
247 Glossary
