BUDDHIST ART ANALYSIS

Buddhist Art Analysis

Buddhist Art Analysis

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I have selected the Buddhist Art Analysis for this dissertation. The presence of Buddhism in Western societies is increasingly palpable. Almost all the major European and American capitals have one or several Buddhist meditation centers. Buddhist art is historical trend in the art that emerged in India after the life of Siddhartha Gautama in the VI-V BC. As a result of contacts with different Asian cultures, Buddhist art evolved and spread throughout Asia. Buddhist art went following the spread and adaptation of dharma, evolving with each new Buddhist country. The northern branch of Buddhist art was developed in Central and East Asia, while the southern branch of Buddhist art flourished in Southeast Asia. Before the tenth century, Indian Buddhist art evolved and flourished, affecting the formation of Hindu art, finally disappearing when Buddhism was virtually wiped out in India due to Muslim aggression and Hinduism strength.

The Western literature and art have anything to offer to those who practice Buddhism. Researchers believe that Western Buddhists need to create a new Buddhist culture, which would be purely Buddhist, but to speak the language of the West. This is quite a bold statement, as both Western culture and Buddhism are vast and extremely diverse. Still, he expressed the idea that the key to using them both as aspects of the Buddhist path is imagination. This means the perception of life in its entirety, in the unity of the mind and emotions through images and metaphors as in the case of art. From Buddhist havens says that its inhabitants do not age, do not get sick, suffer neither hunger nor thirst, no crimes occur because everyone has a pure mind and a compassionate behaviour, there are no easements in the worldly sense of the word, the beings perfect play musical instruments or reading sacred texts, etc (Weinuo, 1999).

Buddhism first spread its influence throughout Asia, first south to Sri Lanka, then north and east to Tibet, Burma, China, and Cambodia. Art has always been important in Buddhism. Everyone knows the meditating Buddhav artists. Art has the ability to go beyond intellectual concepts and playing veradades that cannot be expressed in words. To establish Buddhism in the West, we need to have artistic expressions of Western Buddhists (www.metmuseum.org). Eastern Buddhist teachers have met and continue to meet its mission to transmit the teachings to the West, and we must nurture a deep gratitude to them as has always happened historically in all countries to which Buddhism reached. Indeed, the issue of integration of Buddhism in Western society is a very big subject.

Faced with these Eastern Buddhism, the first thing that the Western Buddhist needs to do is to learn to distinguish what is really Buddhism that is actually growing Southeast Asian or Chinese, or Japanese, or Tibetan, or even Indian. Not that there is anything wrong in these cultures are often very beautiful. But they are not the same thing as Buddhism; they are not the ...