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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]
After about 600, they became increasingly prominent, and in art for Vajrayana uses began to replace images of the historical Buddha. Images of Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva of compassion, might be mistaken for Gautama. [14] He is incarnated in the Dalai Lama, who is a tulku and the most revered Tibetan Buddhist monk. [15] [16]
Narrative images of episodes from the life of Gautama Buddha in art have been intermittently an important part of Buddhist art, often grouped into cycles, sometimes rather large ones. However, at many times and places, images of the Buddha in art have been very largely single devotional images without narrative content from his life on Earth.
The art of Gandhara was influenced by Ancient Greek art, leading to the development of Greco-Buddhist art with anatomically well-proportioned and realistic figure of the Buddha. One of the most influential Buddhist art was Gupta art and the later Amaravati style. From India the depiction of Buddha spread to the rest of Asia.
After the 2019-2022 conservation, the painting was once again displayed at Tokyo in the exhibit Hōnen and Pure Land Buddhism, which commemorates the 850th anniversary of the founding of Jōdo-shū. The exhibit ran in Tokyo on 16 April to 9 June 2024 before being on public display at the Kyoto National Museum from 8 October to 1 December 2024.
"For hate is never conquered by hate. Hate is conquered by love. This is an eternal law." — Buddha "Your mind is Nirvana." — Bodhidharma "The greatest achievement is selflessness.
However, Greco-Buddhist art truly flowered and spread under the Kushan Empire, when the first surviving devotional images of the Buddha were created during the 1st-3rd centuries CE. [1] Gandhara art reached its zenith from the 3rd-5th century CE, when most surviving motifs and artworks were produced. [1]
Buddha in parinirvana, Gandhara art, 2nd or 3rd century Buddha entering nirvana, Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam, 17th century AD. A reclining Buddha is an image that represents Buddha lying down and is a major iconographic theme in Buddhist art. It represents the historical Buddha during his last illness, about to enter the parinirvana. [1]