... greatness and power, the fullness of expression gained by reserve and suppression and concentration which we find here is the perfect method of the classical art of India. And by this perfection Buddhist art became not merely an illustration of the religion and an expression of its thought and its religious feeling, history and legend, but a revealing interpretation of the spiritual sense of Buddhism ...
... greatness and power, the fullness of expression gained by reserve and suppression and concentration which we find here is the perfect method of the classical art of India. And by this perfection Buddhist art became not merely an illustration of the religion and an expression of its thought and its religious Page 310 feeling, history and legend, but a revealing interpretation of the spiritual ...
... stigmatism as anemic and impotent the enthusiastic souls who carved massively in stone or who painted the caves of Ajanta after winning incredible victories of excavation in the basalt cliffs? Buddhist art was created by men on whom the spiritual light had laid its hand, even if it had not in all instances gripped them wholly. The colorful enthusiasm and beautiful optimism which Gladstone Solomon ...
... their settlements in the ports on the Coromandel coast. Remember how in the eleventh century, Buddhism had thrived under the Pal and Sen kings of Bengal? That was probably the final great era of Buddhist art and literature in India. Well, the 'foreign' Buddhists had also built their places of worship in the Hindu kingdoms, where there was great tolerance for other religions. Let us recall that there ...
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