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The Huayan school of Buddhism (traditional Chinese: 華嚴; simplified Chinese: 华严; pinyin: Huáyán, Wade–Giles: Hua-Yen, "Flower Garland," from the Sanskrit "Avataṃsaka") is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907). [1]
Wedding ceremonies in India include the bride and groom wearing a wedding garland. On other occasions, garlands are given as a sign of respect to an individual person or to a divine image. A gajra is a flower garland which women in India and Bangladesh wear in their hair during traditional festivals.
In Samoa, similar garlands fashioned of entire flowers, buds, seeds, nuts, plant fibers, leaves, ferns, seashells, or flower petals are called "asoa" or "ula", [9] while single flowers or clusters worn in the hair or on the ear are called sei. In Tahiti such garlands are referred to as "hei" and in the Cook Islands they are called an "ei". [10]
Unsigned, the painting is attributed to de Arellano due to the wide variety of flowers scientifically portrayed, the precise underdrawing and the quite free arrangement of them with the petals (especially those of the red and white tulip at bottom left) seemingly troubled by a breeze, though the inclusion of a dahlia and orange blossom is rare ...
an image that is not rectangular can be filled to the required rectangle using transparent surroundings; the image can even have holes (e.g. be ring-shaped) in a run of text, a special symbol for which an image is used because it is not available in the character set, can be given a transparent background, resulting in a matching background.
Flowers are arranged into animal shapes such as mouse, rabbit, squirrel, and gibbon. Chained malai is a series of rounded malai connected together which resemble a chain. Braided malai two rounded malai connected together, decorated with pine-shaped malai on each end. Vine malai is a series of semicircular malai arranged in a vine shape.
The cartouche in the center of Verbruggen's garland paintings was usually filled with non-religious imagery such as portraits and mythological scenes. The Flower garland surrounding a vase of flowers (At the Instituut Collectie Nederland) is an example of a garland painting by Verbruggen. It is unusual because the image in the centre of the ...