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To see a fully awakened person, a Buddha, is so rare that it is like seeing an udumbara flower. In the Tu Hieu Monastery in Hue, there is a scroll which says: "The udumbara flower, although fallen from the stem, is still fragrant." Just as the fragrance of the udumbara flower cannot be destroyed, our capacity for enlightenment is always present.
In Christian iconography plants appear mainly as attributes on the pictures of Christ or the Virgin Mary. Christological plants are among others the vine , the columbine , the carnation and the flowering cross, which grows out of an acanthus plant surrounded by tendrils.
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The Madonna of humility by Domenico di Bartolo 1433 has been described as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance [35]. Catholic Marian art has expressed a wide range of theological topics that relate to Mary, often in ways that are far from obvious, and whose meaning can only be recovered by detailed scholarly analysis.
English: Religious symbols from the top nine organised faiths of the world according to Major world religions. From left to right: 1st Row: Christian Cross, Jewish Star of David, Hindu Aumkar; 2nd Row: Islamic Star and crescent, Buddhist Wheel of Dharma, Shinto Torii; 3rd Row: Sikh Khanda, Bahá'í star, Jain Ahimsa Symbol
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[37] [38] Though both groupings did not object to book illustrations or prints of biblical events, or portraits of reformers, production of large-scale religious art virtually ceased in Protestant regions after about 1540, and artists shifted to secular subjects, ironically often including revived classical mythology.