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The Art of Mathura refers to a particular school of Indian art, almost entirely surviving in the form of sculpture, starting in the 2nd century BCE, which centered on the city of Mathura, in central northern India, during a period in which Buddhism, Jainism together with Hinduism flourished in India. [5]
Several seated Buddha triads in an elaborate style are known from the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, such as the Brussels Buddha, which may also be dated to the early years of Kanishka. [ 21 ] [ 5 ] "Indrasala architrave", detail of the Buddha in Indrasala Cave , 50-100 CE.
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The Buddha already has the attributes, if not the style, of the later "Kapardin" statues, except for the absence of a halo. [66] Buddhist "Indrasala architrave", with Buddha and Bodhi Tree in the center of each side, dated 50-100 CE, before the Kushan period. [65] [67] The Buddha is attended by Vedic deity Indra on the side of the Indrasala ...
The in-situ seated Buddha (or Bodhisattva) statue at Butkara is considered one of the earliest, if not the earliest, known iconographical statues of the Buddha in northwestern India. [4] Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw considers that the statue dates to the late 1st century BCE to the early 1st century, as it was discovered in the GSt 3 stratum that ...
The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is an early surviving statue of the Buddha discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi in ancient Gandhara in modern-day Pakistan, that dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD during the Kushan Empire. Statues of the "enlightened one" were not made until the 1st century CE.
Fragment of a Buddha stele in the name of a "Kshatrapa lady" named Naṃda (Naṃdaye Kshatrapa), from the Art of Mathura. [8] [9] [10] The stele is dedicated to the Bodhisattva "for the welfare and happiness of all sentient beings for the acceptance of the Sarvastivadas". Northern Satraps period, 1st century CE.
The Mediating Buddha of Wat Pho's ubosot. The meditation attitude, also known as meditating Buddha, is an attitude of Buddha in which the seated Buddha rests both upturned hands on his lap, the right hand usually on top.