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Kneeling Attendant Bodhisattva (Mogao Cave)
The Kneeling Attendant Bodhisattva is a late 7th century, polychromed Buddhist sculpture, dating to the Tang dynasty, depicting a kneeling bodhisattva. Once a part of a set of eight figures, depicting six bodhisattvas and two disciples of the Buddha, it was once a part of the Mogao Caves, but is currently on display at the Harvard Art Museum. Mogao Cave 328 The Mogao Caves, in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China served as a major nexus of Buddhist pilgrimages from the Northern Liang to the Song dynasty. Consisting of over 492 niches and caves, with well over a millennia of Buddhist art, Cave 328 was established during the early years of the Tang Dynasty, when the caves saw high flow of pilgrims. In an area covering 6 meters squared, the niche depicts the Buddha preaching, right hand in the Abhayamudra, with a combination of two-dimensional and three-dimensional painting and sculpture of his disciples and attendants. Kashyapa and Ānanda are seen at the side, absorbed in thought. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tang Dynasty Art
Tang dynasty art () refers to Chinese art created during the Tang dynasty (618–907). The period saw significant advancements in arts such as Chinese painting, painting, sculpture, calligraphy, Chinese music, music, dance, and Chinese literature, literature. During the Tang dynasty, the capital city Chang'an (today's Xi'an), was the most populous city in the known world, and the era is generally regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization and a golden age of Chinese literature and art. In several areas developments during the Tang set the direction for many centuries to come. This was especially so in pottery, with glazed plain wares in celadon green and whitish porcelaineous types brought to a high level, and exported on a considerable scale. In painting, the period saw the peak level of Buddhist painting, and the emergence of the landscape painting tradition known as ''shanshui'' (mountain-water) painting. Trading along the Silk Road of various products in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotus Sutra
The ''Lotus Sūtra'' (Sanskrit: ''Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram'', ''Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma'', zh, p=Fǎhuá jīng, l=Dharma Flower Sutra) is one of the most influential and venerated Buddhist Mahāyāna sūtras. It is the main scripture on which the Tiantai along with its derivative schools, the Japanese Tendai and Nichiren, Korean Cheontae, and Vietnamese Thiên Thai schools of Buddhism were established. It is also influential for other East Asian Buddhist schools, such as Zen. According to the British Buddhologist Paul Williams, "For many Buddhists in East Asia since early times, the ''Lotus Sūtra'' contains the final teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha—complete and sufficient for salvation." The American Buddhologist Donald S. Lopez Jr. writes that the ''Lotus Sūtra'' "is arguably the most famous of all Buddhist texts," presenting "a radical re-vision of both the Buddhist path and of the person of the Buddha." Two central teachings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddhist Canons
There are several Buddhist canons, which refers to the various scriptural collections of Buddhist texts, Buddhist sacred scriptures or the various Buddhist Scriptural canon, scriptural canons. Tipitaka Encyclopædia Britannica (2015) Some of these collections are also called ''Tipiṭaka'' () or ''Tripiṭaka'' () , meaning "Triple Basket", a traditional term for the three main divisions of some ancient canons. In ancient India, there were several Buddhist scriptural canons that were organized into three main textual divisions: Vinaya (monastic rule), Sutra (which contains teachings of the Buddha) and Abhidharma (which are more systematic and scholastic works). For example, the Pali Canon, ''Pāli Tipiṭaka'' is composed of the ''Vinaya Pitaka, Vinaya Piṭaka'', the ''Sutta Piṭaka'', and the ''Abhidh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
