Buddhist and Hindu art
-Bold Kalidasa was a servant of Kali and was a renowned classical writer, regarded the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language.
Buddhist Art
spread throughout central Asia all the way to northern asia.
influenced the development of Hindu Art.
Hindu Art
64 traditional arts
Singing
dancing
STUPAS: buildings of worship that also keep precious sacred relics
were very popular among Buddhist culture
the most popular the great Stupa, was built in Sanchi, India
this massive building is 120 feet across and 54 feet tall
Buddhism-
religion indigenous to the Indian subcontinent
- siddharta gautama otherwise known as Buddha, meaning the awakened one was the teacher of Buddhism
Branches
Threvada- school of the elders, the oldest surviving school, bases its practice doctrine exclusively on the pali canon and its commentaries.
one of the first schools to commit a complete set of its canon into writing
- Mahayana- the great vehicle
Brahma- variously translated as gods dieties spririts angels of left untranslated. Appears as the creator of the universe. 1st god of hindu trimurti. he is regarded as the senior god and his job was creation the least worshiped god today.
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