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ASIAN RELIGION AND CULTURE

ASIAN RELIGION AND CULTURE. Yakshi – detail of eastern gateway to Great Stupa – ca 0. HINDUISM. Recognize no founder or teacher Means “religion of the Indians” Goal – to achieve liberation from cycles and become universal spirit Deities have various natures and take on different forms.

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ASIAN RELIGION AND CULTURE

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  1. ASIAN RELIGION AND CULTURE

  2. Yakshi – detail of eastern gateway to Great Stupa – ca 0

  3. HINDUISM • Recognize no founder or teacher • Means “religion of the Indians” • Goal – to achieve liberation from cycles and become universal spirit • Deities have various natures and take on different forms

  4. Dancing Shiva - 550

  5. Shiva as Mahadeva – basalt - 550

  6. Shiva as Nataraja – bronze - 1000

  7. Vishnu asleep on serpent - 500

  8. Harihara – stone - 600

  9. Vishnu lying on cosmic ocean – bronze – 8’ long - 1000

  10. Rock Cut Temples - 600

  11. Vishvanatha Temple - 1000

  12. Angkor Wat - 1100

  13. BUDDHISM Prince Siddartha Gautama born 563 BCE Age 29 – left palace, abandoning wife and family, to encounter suffering and the world he was sheilded from Found Nirvana through meditation and… Wheel of Law: • Life is Suffering • The cause of suffering is desire • One can overcome and extinguish desire • Follow Buddah’s path to Nirvana to end cycles of rebirth

  14. The Life and Death of Buddha – 100CE

  15. Meditating Buddah – 100 and Seated Buddah preaching first sermon - 450

  16. Head of Buddha – lime - 200

  17. Great Stupa – Sanchi, India – 3rd cent BCE to 1st cent CE

  18. Interior of Chaitya Hall (cave) - 450

  19. Bodhisattiva

  20. Borobudur – Java, Indonesia - 800

  21. Death of Buddha – Sri Lanka - 1100

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