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1. The Evolution of Gandhara Art: An Intersection of Cultures:
Examine how Gandhara art represents a fusion of Greco-Roman, Persian, and Indian influences, producing a distinctive style that flourished in Continue Reading...
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1. The Artistic Legacy of Gandhara:
Explore how Gandhara's art influenced Buddhist iconography and its spread across Asia.
2. Gandhara as a Cultural Crossroads:
Discuss the role Continue Reading...
Narrative in Asian Art History
Exporting Buddhism's Moral Authority
Whether or not one accepts Hayden White's assertion that the will to narrativize history is inseparable from a will to impose moral authority in a specific social reality, a brief Continue Reading...
In addition, this door panel, composed of cedar wood, may represent a type of social event which was rather prominent during the Early Christian period, circa 430 C.E. Since one can make out some kind of brick background behind the three figures, t Continue Reading...
Some Chinese researchers assert that Chinese flutes may have evolved from of Indian provenance.
In fact, the kind of side-blown, or transverse, flutes musicians play in Southeast Asia have also been discovered in Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, and C Continue Reading...
This view is expressed in the Mahayana doctrine of the triple body (trikaya), of the Buddha. Such a view of Buddha also gave rise to the Mahayana concept of an infinite number of Buddhas, or transformation bodies of the essential Buddha, appearing i Continue Reading...
Buddhist Art and further, to explore the characteristics of Art in Buddhism as well as naming two Buddhist artists and their works from this period.
Buddhist Art has within it several periods within the scope of what is termed Buddhist Art. Buddhis Continue Reading...