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Rock-cut Buddhist Monasteries of the Southern Konkan
Whilst many rock-cut Buddhist monasteries in Maharashtra have been documented in detail, those located in the southern Konkan have not been published. Between the second century BCE and the fourth century CE several monasteries were cut close to the western edge of the Western Ghats mountains to the south of...Rees, Gethin
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2014
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Rivers, Valleys, Plains and the Distribution of the Rock-cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats
This article provides an introduction to Buddhist monasteries situated in the Western Ghats Mountains and on the Konkan Coast. These monasteries took the form of caves that were cut between 200 BC and AD 500 approximately. The caves provided shelter for monastic communities, housing activities such as meditation, eating and...Rees, Gethin
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2019
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Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire using GIS
The purpose of this paper is to outline the methodology used to map, for the first time, the Jewish communities of the Byzantine Empire. The project Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire enables specialists, general scholars and indeed the public at large to browse web maps of the...Rees, Gethin ; de Lange, Nicholas ; Panayotov, Alexander