At some given point in history politics, religion and art inter-collide and create new vision for society to engage in. Artist Gianlorenzo Bernini created St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy during the Baroque ca. 1600-1700 CE. The sculpture, made with white marble, has gilded bronze rays with illuminating light that descends and brightens the figure from a hidden window above. It depicts a playful with smirky smile angel whom opens Teresa’s robe and aims with an arrow at her breast. It represents the vision that Teresa had where she describes an angel piercing her body many times with an arrow and this event transported her to a state of ecstasy with God charged with stimulating sensations. This sculpture is an example of the emotional and theatrical
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When he was born was named Prince Siddhartha Gautama. One day at the age of 29 he decided to leave his home and family and live in the wilderness. He decided to change his way of life due to the fact that he was profoundly troubled by humanity unavoidable conditions, which are old age, sickness, death, and the recurrences of these sufferings throughout the continual sequence of rebirth. For six years of meditation and one day while sitting under a pipal tree at Bodh Gaya, later known as the Bodhi tree, he reached complete enlightenment and became the Buddha, which means, “Enlightened one.” Buddha created the Four Noble Truths which are the basis of Buddhism: life is suffering; this suffering has a cause, which is ignorance; the way that desire can be overcome and extinguished by following the eightfold path of right view, which are right speech, right action, right livelihood, right concentration, right effort, right view, right resolve and right mindfulness. After Buddha’s death at the age of 80, his followers developed his teachings and founded the world’s eldest monastic institutions. In Mahayana Buddhism, the goal was extended from accomplishing nirvana for oneself to reaching Buddhahood for all individuals. A Buddha is not a god but somewhat one who understands the ultimate nature of the world and allowing him to no longer form part of this cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. According to the Buddhist’s believes all beings are trapped in a persistent cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth, the idea of reincarnation is to be released from this cycle. Theravada the earliest form of Buddhism, emphases self- cultivation for the purpose of achieving nirvana, the end or liberation of this cycle, by connecting one’s individual soul with the undying universal Brahman, which states that the material world is unreal
When he was born was named Prince Siddhartha Gautama. One day at the age of 29 he decided to leave his home and family and live in the wilderness. He decided to change his way of life due to the fact that he was profoundly troubled by humanity unavoidable conditions, which are old age, sickness, death, and the recurrences of these sufferings throughout the continual sequence of rebirth. For six years of meditation and one day while sitting under a pipal tree at Bodh Gaya, later known as the Bodhi tree, he reached complete enlightenment and became the Buddha, which means, “Enlightened one.” Buddha created the Four Noble Truths which are the basis of Buddhism: life is suffering; this suffering has a cause, which is ignorance; the way that desire can be overcome and extinguished by following the eightfold path of right view, which are right speech, right action, right livelihood, right concentration, right effort, right view, right resolve and right mindfulness. After Buddha’s death at the age of 80, his followers developed his teachings and founded the world’s eldest monastic institutions. In Mahayana Buddhism, the goal was extended from accomplishing nirvana for oneself to reaching Buddhahood for all individuals. A Buddha is not a god but somewhat one who understands the ultimate nature of the world and allowing him to no longer form part of this cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. According to the Buddhist’s believes all beings are trapped in a persistent cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth, the idea of reincarnation is to be released from this cycle. Theravada the earliest form of Buddhism, emphases self- cultivation for the purpose of achieving nirvana, the end or liberation of this cycle, by connecting one’s individual soul with the undying universal Brahman, which states that the material world is unreal