Ancient South Asia

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The Great Stupa at Sanchi

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Priest-King Bust

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Fasting Buddha Shakyamuni

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The Buddha Mathura

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The Bodhisattva Maitreya

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Circumambulation

Act of walking around a sacred object or place

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Jatakas

Collection of stories that describe the previous lives of Buddha

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Aniconic

Symbolic or suggestive

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Samsara

Cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

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Yakshi

Female nature spirits associated with fertility, prosperity, love, and beauty.

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Mahayana Buddhism

Branch of Buddhism; accepts main teachings of early Buddhism but also adds new sutras and doctrines

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Theravada

One of the first and oldest surviving Buddhist schools

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Bodhisattva

A person who can reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion to save suffering beings

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The Vedas

Collection of ancient Sanskrit texts that are the oldest surviving literature of India

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Dharma

Code of righteous behavior that is considered to be by the order of the universe

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Ushnisha

3D oval-shaped cranial bump on top of the head that represented Buddha’s enlightenment, omniscience, and divine knowledge.

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Urna

Circular dot or curl of hair on the forehead of Buddha

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Vishnu

Preserve and protector of universe while Brahma creates and Shiva destroys

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Shiva

Destroys to create

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Brahma

God of creation, knowledge, and the Vedas.

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Vishnu

Main subject of narrative relief sculptures from the temple at Deogarh

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Toranas

Gateways in the stone fence around a stupa are located at the cardinal points of the compass and depict narratives about the past lives of Buddha

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Halo, urna, elongated earlobes, mudra gestures, and ushnisha.

The Buddha can be identified through a variety of iconographic elements.

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Linga with Yoni

Aniconic depiction of Shiva celebrates the generative creation of male and female aspects of the universe