#buddhist art

[miamaimania]

fully Crafted Consciousness - Nam June Paik's Reclining Buddha (1994)

[jareckiworld]

Grim Park — My Road (korean traditional paint, acrylic on silk, 2022)

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Guanyin Riding a Dragon Artist: Harada Naojirō (Japanese, 1863-1899) Date: 1890 Genre: religious art (Buddhism) Period: Meiji Movement: Yōga Location: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Guanyin is the Chinese name of Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. She is known in Japanese as Kannon/Kwannon.

Harada Naojirō was a master of yōga, Western-style Japanese painting. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

[along-the-silkroad]

Bodhisattva of Wisdom (Manjushri), 15th century, Nepal. Cleveland Museum of Art (ID: 1964.370). This image depicts one of the main bodhisattvas, beings only one stage away from full enlightenment. Because the historical Buddha was a prince prior to his renunciation and life as a wandering ascetic, bodhisattvas are depicted as royal princes. This example has the sharp features, sweet expression, and crisp details characteristic of images made in Nepal during the 1400s. In his upraised right hand Manjushri holds the hilt of a sword that, like wisdom itself, metaphorically cuts through and defeats ignorance. His lower, rear left hand grasps a bow, once probably strung with a wire. Also missing is the arrow that he likely held in his lowered right hand. Arrows were often symbols for mantras, or strings of syllables thought to have the power to focus the mind and work like missiles to destroy negativity and affliction. The gesture of his lowered left hand indicates the transmission of Buddhist teachings. The lotus stem that rises at the left elbows originally held a book of sutras. This figure is in the yogic posture of meditation with the big toe flexed in concentration. Yoga is of central importance in tantric Buddhism, because high-level practitioners are able to discipline the body to such an extent that the mind can also be controlled. (Cleveland Museum of Art)

[bronzeageecho]

head of an adorant | c. 201-500 CE | gandhara (either afghanistan or pakistan)

in the art institute of chicago collection

[occultclassicalart]

BW Edit after Japanese artist of the 18th/19th century (Helmet Crest (Maidate)) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. 36.25.253)

[moonsetsoda]

changeling

[charnel-grounds]

“Kusōzu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body”

The contemplation of the nine stages of a decaying corpse is a Buddhist meditational practice in which the practitioner imagines or observes the gradual decomposition of a dead body

watercolours, 18th century