The first object you encounter when approach the Gandhara section of the Hotung Gallery is a large, beautifully carved preaching Buddha sculpture from Jamalgarhi, which you may remember from A Hist…
Originally a funeral mound, constructed either to commemorate a great person or to house his relics, the stupa is the quintessential symbol of the Buddha. While architectural stupas serve as places of worship, smaller ones are used as reliquaries and ...
The first object you encounter when approach the Gandhara section of the Hotung Gallery is a large, beautifully carved preaching Buddha sculpture from Jamalgarhi, which you may remember from A Hist…
Exhibition in Beijing introduces visitors to ancient Central Asian cultural heritage.
Jaulian is a ruined Buddhist monastery dating from the 2nd century CE, located in Taxila, in Pakistan.
The Buddhist deity Guhyasamaja (detail), approx. 1400–1500. China; Beijing, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Bronze with gilding. Asian Art Museum, The Avery Brundage Collection , B64B23. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. SAN FRANCISCO, CA .- The human form...
Archeologists in Pakistan say they have unearthed an 1,800-year-old Buddhist stupa and a trove of artifacts in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
L'exposition «Pakistan – Terre de rencontre – (Ier-VIème siècles) - Les arts du Gandhara», présentée au musée Guimet (XVIe arrondissement de Paris) jusqu'au 16 août, met en exergue la richesse de l’art gréco-bouddhiste qui s’est développé dans ce petit royaume autour des premiers siècles de notre ère.
The Gupta period, from the fourth to the sixth century A.D., in northern India, sometimes referred to as a Golden Age, witnessed the creation of an “ideal image” of the Buddha.
A votive stupa at Mohra Moradu monastic complex, Taxila, dating to the 2nd century CE. This stupa, dedicated to a venerated teacher or monk, is made of a soft local limestone called “kañjur…
Reliquary stūpa; in three parts; made of grey steatite. The mouldings of the square base are a torus between two fillets at the bottom and a cornice of three prominent fillets; along the four sides is a crudely incised cross-hatched motif. A large cavity, semi-ovoid in section, in the top of the base contained 'a few ashes'. Small shallow triangular indentations run beside the edge on the top of the base. The second part is a drum which consists of two tiers demarcated by clusters of one convex and two fillet mouldings, the upper tier of narrower circumference and both lightly incised with a cross-hatched band. At the bottom the short circular tenon which slots into the cavity of the base has a roughly rectangular recess for turning. The deep cavity at the top of the drum is ovoid in section. The solid third part, which slots into a flange at the top of the second, has a drum register defined horizontally by two prominent convex mouldings; on the dome itself light incisions form the petals of a lotus motif centred on the chattrāvalī which may have had up to seven discs, where preserved of reversed ovolo profile at the edges and resting on small, plain, circular capitals. There is no cubical harmikā.
acquistata da D. GHIGO nel 1975
