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Buddha in Gandhara Art and Other Buddhist Sites
By: Shanti Lai Nagar
Buddha in Gandhara art and other Buddhist sites By:Shanti Lai Nagar


 
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Author: Shanti Lal Nagar
Format: Hardcover (9" x 11.25")
ISBN: 9788190821216
Publication Date: 2022


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The Genesis of the Buddhist art in India is traceable in the stone art of Bharhut dating back to the second century B. C. followed by the art of the Buddhist stupa at Sanchi (1st century B.C.) the Art of Mathura and Amaravati dating back to a century or two later.

Numerous stone artefacts relating to the life of the Buddha were discovered from these sites. The early tradition of the Buddhist art and Bharhut and Sanchi does not project Buddha in human form. He is projected at these sites in symbolic form of empty throne, a chariot with a rider, a Bodhi tree or a horse without a rider. This was ostensibly done by the followers of the Buddha, out of the great reverence and respect they had for the master.

The Gandhara region includes parts of the North-West frontier province, Punjab, Afghanistan and the Swat Valley of Pakistan. The Buddha, however, started appearing in human form in Gandhara Art starting from the 2nd-3rd century A.D. onwards. The Projection of Buddha at Gandhara, in human form is so widespread, as if it had been started with a vengeance. In early Buddhist sites on Bharhut, Sanchi, Mathura, Amaravati and Nagarjunakonda, the Buddhist Art was executed in the hard stone. But in Gandhara, the religious art was not restricted to the stone sculptures alone but its exceIIence was projected in terracotta and stucco at Taxile, the Cave at Bamiyan in Afghanistan and other sites where two standing images of the Buddha were found, one of which is the tallest in the world with a height of 177 feet. The life scenes of Buddha right from the dream of the Queen Maya to his Parinirvana started appearing in the Buddhist art from Bharhut onwards, and Gandhara started doing so by about the 2nd-3rd Century A.D.

Buddha in Gandhara Art and other Buddhist Sites, Shanti Lal Nagar, Buddhist World Press, Hardcover, 407 pp, $95.00

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