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53 Cards in this Set
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Seal showing Yogi Mohenjo-Daro, 2300-1750 BCE Indus Valley
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Mohenjo-Daro Great Bath 2300-1750 BCE Indus Valley
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Yakshi figure c. 200 BCE Pre-Buddhism
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Great Stupa, Sanchi, 3rd century BCE-1st century BCE Buddhism |
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Buddha Seated on lion throne, Mathura, 1st century Buddhism |
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Shiva Nataraja, 11-12th century, bronze Hinduism |
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Khajuraho Temple Complex and sculpture of couples 11th century Hinduism |
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Taj Mahal, compl 1653 Mughal India |
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Gu wine vessel, bronze Shang Dynasty |
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Terra cotta soldiers, tomb of first emperor, 210 BCE Qin dynasty |
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Horse poised on swallow, bronze Han Dynasty |
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Colossal Buddha, Yungang Cave, Northern Wei Dynasty |
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Bodhisattava Guanyin, Song Dynasty |
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Fan Kuan, Travelling in Streams and Mountains, 950-1050 Song Dynasty |
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Bottle with copper rim, Ru Ware, Song Dynasty |
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Great Wall, begun in Xin and enlarged in Ming Dynasty |
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Fish Jar porcelain Ming Dynasty |
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Bodhisattva seated in meditation, gilt bronze early 7th century CE, Silla |
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Stone pagoda, 8th century, Unified Silla |
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Ewer, with inlaid chrysanthemum flowers and cranes Goryeo |
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Horyuji compound, pagoda, 7th century, Nara |
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Womb World Mandala, 859-880, Heian
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Catching Catfish with a Gourd, early 15th century, Muromachi
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Himeji Castle, late 16th century, Momoyama |
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Hokusai, View on Fine and Breezy Day, wood block print, 1822-32, Edo |
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Shazia sikander, SpiNN, 2003, digital animation
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Anish Kapoor, cloud gate, chicago, 2003, public sculpture of stainless steel plates
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Xu Bing, Book from the sky, 1987-1991, installation of woodblock books, text, caligraphy |
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Ai Wei Wei, Sunflower seeds, 2010, installaion |
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Nam Jun Paik, Electronic Highway |
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Do-Ho Suh, Some/One, 2003, 3,00 dogtags |
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Yayoi Kusama, Transmigration, 2011, installation |
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Mariko Mori, Play with me, 1994, performance art |
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Takashi, Murakami, DOB DOB, 1996 |
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Takashi Murakami, Wink, 2001 |
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Siddhartha Gautama |
Indian religious leader: founder of Buddhism.
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axis mundi
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line through the earth's center around which the universe revolves
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Shiva |
The Destroyer, the third member of the Trimurti
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Ganesha |
The Hindu god of wisdom |
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lingam shrine |
a symbol of divine generative energy, especially a phallus or phallic object as a symbol of Shiva. |
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Mughal Empire |
was a Persianate empire extending over large parts of the Indian subcontinent and ruled by a dynasty of Mongol and Chagatai-Turkic origin. |
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Daoism |
a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events. |
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Pure Land Buddhism |
a paradise believed by the followers of a Mahayana sect (Pure Landsect) to be ruled over by a Buddha (Amida) whose hope it is tobring all beings into it. |
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scholar-official! |
were civil servants appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day governance from the Han dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912, China's last imperial dynasty. |
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celadon |
a gray-green glaze used on pottery, especially that from China. |
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Cuonfucius |
Chinese philosopher and teacher. |
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pagoda! |
a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building, typically a many-tiered tower, in India and East Asia.
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Dogu |
are small humanoid and animal figurines made during the late Jōmon period
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Wabi Sabi |
represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.
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Shinto |
the indigenous religion of Japan consisting chiefly in the cultic devotion to deities of natural forces and veneration of the Emperor as a descendant of the sun goddess
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Zen Buddhism
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a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing the value of meditation and intuition.
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Esoteric Buddhism
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is one of the mainstream major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asia,
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onna-e
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indicates subject matter in painting felt to be especially of interest to women, such as that illustrating romantic poetry orprose; this style is exemplified by tsukuri-e paintings, in which built-up colordominates.
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