Buddhist art and culture

Raja Rao’s Chessmaster and his moves from Buddhist viewpoint Buddha “The Awaken One” gave his philosophy of life his teaching is known today as Buddhist philosophy and it has been seen as very important phenomena and studied and practiced till today. Influence of Buddhist philosophy is not only seen on Indian culture but also on the world which embraces all areas such as literature, architecture, dance, music, drama, painting, printing, and various Art associated with Buddhism. This paper…

Throughout history different cultures at different times have used different forms of body art to express spirituality, religion, and social views. From once being a stick with ink on it and now advancing to modern day shops with sanitation and regulations, tattoos have evolved since then. Each area, placing a stigma of the art, or using it for the opposite like showing a higher social status. Modern day tattoos make a place for themselves in everyday culture. There are thousands of different…

if people did not graduate famed university in Seoul, so parents pushing hard children to get a good grade to school or get a certificate from the famous university. This kind of culture causing cheating on exams in school, a national examination for license and it can result in a lack of development…

illustrates this well. Noh, derived from the Sino-Japanese word for “skill” or “talent” is the oldest form of major theatre art still regularly performed today. Popular performance modes of the 10th and 11th centuries, Dengaku-no and Sarugaku-no, led to the development of Noh in the 14th century. Noh was performed almost exclusively for samurai class, and it focuses on the Buddhist concept of zen, contemplation, and the withdrawal from worldly desire and distraction. Noh is a combination of…

Manichean Texts of the Silk Road Tun-Huang was a major destination along the Silk Road. The caves of the thousand Buddhas contained many important manuscripts and pieces of art which have been used by historians to learn about the cultures of the Silk Road. Among these were three Manichean texts written in Chinese. These are the Hymnscroll, the Compendium of the Doctrines of Mani, and the Traité Pelliot. These are significant because they are some of the only written documents we have of the…

the passion for making films before I could comprehend what I wanted to do with my life. Theatre, I was in the theatre department and gradually realized that I preferred getting behind a camera than being in front of one. Being so new to cinematic arts, I was very tentative to share ideas from my sheer lack of experience compared to the rest. It was then that I realized that my theatre and on camera acting background helped my directing my actors. Having this basis of understanding with those in…

Gupta Empire in India (320-550 AD). Despite the distance between these two empires, the Axum Empire and the Gupta Empire had similar political, interaction, and economic structure, although the empires each had their own distinct social structure and culture. Axum and Gupta were fairly similar politically, economically, and through interactions. As Axum and Gupta were both empires, naturally…

the Japanese word that best translates the concept of “art”. A word which implies that “art is synonymous with living, functional purpose, and spiritual simplicity” (Walkup). Zen Art is by its nature spiritual as it was “done not by professional artists, but by Zen monks and nuns who spent extremely disciplined lives of meditation, in a search for enlightenment and awakening to the true nature of reality”(Sweet). The core foundation of the art-form is the belief that the true character as well…

Jungle Book. Possessing a deep admiration for Indian culture, Kipling penned colorful, captivating pieces of literature. Nearly all of his writings carried common themes surrounding the life and culture in India, and many of his works are directly reflective of certain periods in his dynamic life. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born…

shifts of power, and the emergence of new political and economic powers. While literature and the arts prospered in court, as seen with the Tales of Genji, greed and manipulation also bled throughout. From the rise of the imperial statehood, and to the dominance of the aristocracy, the Heian Period was muddled with hierarchical court politics and culture, that bred a period of both the blossoming of the arts, and of intolerance and ignorance, which ultimately led to its downfall. Overall, the…