Buddhist and Hidu Art
- Brahma- the creator God in the later hinduism culture who formed a triad with vishnu the preserver of shiva the destroyer
- Vishnu- a minor vedic god regarded by his worshipers as the supreme deity and savior. He is considered by hindus to have a nice earthly incarnations or avatars
- Shiva- the destroyer and the recreator
- Kalidasa- a servant of Kali and was a renowened classsical wroter, regarded the greatest poet and dramatist in the sanskirt language
- Silk road- a modern term reffering to a historical network trade route across the Afro-Eurasian land that connects est, south and western asia with the mediterranean and european world including parts of north and east africa
- Theravada is the teaching of elders
- Buddhist art
- Spread through central asia all the way to northern asia
- Influenced the development of hindu art
- Hindu art
- 64 traditional arts
- ex: singing. dancing, creating music with water, pintings
- Subjects ofthe art
- Stuptas- building of worsjip that also kept precious sacred relics
- Were very popular among buddhist culture
- the most powerful, the great supta, was built in Sanchi, India
- The massive building is 120 feet across and 54 feet tall
- Theres a circular walkway around it
- Difference between the hindu and buddhist art
- Buddhist art usually portrays their gods, Vihnu and Ganesha
- Similarities
- Both have sculptures of rock and art cut out of rock
- both were influenced by greek art
- About the same time period
Buddhism
- religon indigenous to the indian subcontinent
- Siddharta Guatama otherwise known as Buddha, meaning the awakend one was the teacher of buddhism
- Branches
- 2 major branches
- Theravada (school of the elders)
- The oldest surviving school
- base is practiced doctrine exclusively on the pali canon and its commentaries
- Mahayana, (the great vehicle)
- Theravada (school of the elders)
- 2 major branches
- Brahma
- Variously translated as gods, deities, spirits, angels or left untranslated
- Appears as the creator of the universe
- He was the 1st god of Hindu trimurti
- He is regarded as the senior god and his job was creation
- The least worshipped god of hinduism today
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