India's Ellora: Three Religions, One Cliff (Part 1 of 3)

Описание: Buddhists and Hindus carved more than one hundred caves into a single lava wall in the Deccan plateau.
Discover the volcanic origins of the Ellora cliff and the architectural evolution of its earliest Buddhist and Hindu rock-cut monasteries.

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Part 1 of 3: "The Ellora Caves"

CHAPTERS
0:00 Three Religions One Cliff
1:20 The Deccan Traps Formation
3:32 A Trade Route Sanctuary
4:54 The Southern Buddhist Monasteries
7:39 The Carpenter Cave and Tantric Art
10:24 The Chronology Debate
12:35 The Great Shiva Caves and Vale Ganga

HOW THIS VIDEO WAS MADE
Researched and written from the sources listed below. Narration uses a synthetic text-to-speech voice. Some scenes are AI-generated reconstructions made for illustration; they are not historical photographs or footage. Archive photographs are credited below.

SOURCES
"Ellora Caves", published by UNESCO World Heritage Centre in 1983. Link: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/243
"Ellora Caves", published by Archaeological Survey of India. Link: https://asi.nic.in/pages/WorldHeritag...
"Ellora Caves", published by Wikipedia. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellora_...
"Kailasa Temple", published by Wikipedia. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailasa...
"Admiring the Works of the Ancients: The Ellora Temples as viewed by Indo-Muslim Authors" by Carl W. Ernst, published by Beyond Turk and Hindu (India Research Press) in 2002. Link: https://franpritchett.com/00indislam/...
"Carving Devotion in the Jain Caves at Ellora" by Lisa N. Owen, published by Brill (resena en North Texan, UNT). Link: https://northtexan.unt.edu/issues/sac...

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