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  2. Buddhist art - Wikipedia

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    Buddhist art is visual art produced in the context of Buddhism.It includes depictions of Gautama Buddha and other Buddhas and bodhisattvas, notable Buddhist figures both historical and mythical, narrative scenes from their lives, mandalas, and physical objects associated with Buddhist practice, such as vajras, bells, stupas and Buddhist temple architecture. [1]

  3. Buddhas and bodhisattvas in art - Wikipedia

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    Relief depicting the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, Plaosan temple, Java, 9th-century. The many different varieties of Buddhist art often show buddhas and bodhisattvas, as well as depictions of the historical Buddha, known as Gautama Buddha (or Siddhārtha Gautama, Śākyamuni, or Tathāgata).

  4. Life of Buddha in art - Wikipedia

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    Anand, Ashok Kumar, Buddhism in India: From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Third Century A.D., 1996, Gyan Publishing House, ISBN 9788121205061, google books; Bautze-Picron, Claudine, "The biography of the Buddha in Indian art: how and when?" in Biographie als religiöser und kultureller Text/Biography as a religious and cultural text, Ed.

  5. Buddha in art - Wikipedia

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    In its first centuries Buddhism was largely or entirely aniconic, not showing the person of Buddha except by symbols and relics. This changed, and figures of the Buddha became very common in the art of Gandhara and Gupta art. As forms of esoteric Buddhism developed, other figures from the expanding array of Buddhist sacred persons became more ...

  6. Ten Bulls - Wikipedia

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    15th century Japanese hanging scroll depicting a scene from the Oxherding sequence. Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding Pictures (Chinese: shíniú 十牛 , Japanese: jūgyūzu 十牛図 , korean: sipwoo 십우) is a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of a practitioner's progress toward awakening, [web 1] and their subsequent return to ...

  7. Buddha footprint - Wikipedia

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    Footprints of the Buddha abound throughout Asia, dating from various periods. [2]: 86 Japanese author Motoji Niwa (丹羽基二, Niwa Motoji), who spent years tracking down the footprints in many Asian countries, estimates that he found more than 3,000 such footprints, among them about 300 in Japan and more than 1,000 in Sri Lanka. [3]

  8. Iconography of Gautama Buddha in Laos and Thailand

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    As Buddhism spread from India to other countries, variations in the depiction of the Buddha evolved. This article describes the canon of Buddha representation in Thailand and Laos. This canon was not formalised until the 19th century, as part of the general project of "modernisation" that followed the Buddhist world's encounter with Western ...

  9. Category:Buddhist iconography - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Buddhist iconography" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ajanubahu;