Buddhist Art in Japan
Buddhism had an important role in the development of Japanese art between the sixth and the sixteenth centuries. Buddhist art and religion came to Japan from China, with the arrival of a bronze Buddhist sculpture alongside the sutras. Buddhist art was encouraged by Crown Prince Taishi in the Suiko p....
Chinese Buddhist Temple and French Gothic Cathedral
Have you ever visited a church or a temple? What kind of feeling do you have? Mysterious? Equable? Actually, the impression of western cathedral and eastern temple are totally different, because they are not just someplace where people worship bust also the carrier of culture. Thus, the cultural dif....
Healing Buddha - Buddhist Art
The identified artwork is called the ¡°Healing Buddha¡±, but the author and the date made are unknown. Overall the painting is symmetrical and the scale between the main character and other objects are very distinctive: the Buddha is very large compared to everything else, thus draws the viewer....