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Buddhism in Asian Art. Drawing on the National Museum of Asian Art's collections and collecions from across the Smithsonian, artworks spanning two millennia reveal Asia's rich Buddhist heritage. They represent diverse schools that arose from the Buddha's teachings.
These southern sites provided artistic inspiration for the Buddhist land of Sri Lanka, off the southern tip of India, and Sri Lankan monks regularly visited the area. A number of statues in this style have been found as well throughout Southeast Asia.
Encountering the Buddha, an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, explores Asia’s rich Buddhist heritage through more than two hundred artworks. It also shows how different schools based on the Buddha’s teachings developed over time.
Chinese Buddhist sculpture frequently illustrates interchanges between China and other Buddhist centers. Works with powerful physiques and thin clothing derive from Indian prototypes, while sculptures that feature thin bodies with thick clothing evince a Chinese idiom.
Gandharan art shows echoes of eastern Mediterranean art that rippled out to China. Scholars see compelling comparisons with Gandharan sculptures in the Buddha dated 338’s posture, particularly the legs crossed beneath a draping robe.
Challenges, opportunities, and approaches for studying South Asian art; Geographic regions of South Asia; Understanding divine “blueness” in South Asia; Depictions of Devi; Representations of Krishna; Mudras in Buddhist art; Textiles from the Indian Subcontinent. Materials and making. Rooted in the soil of the earth: geographical origins of ...
By the first several centuries of the common era, Mahayana Buddhism came to flourish in East Asia, becoming one of the most important creative sources for art and architecture in China, Korea, and Japan.