Friday, March 28, 2008

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Greco-Buddhist Art (Art of Gandhara)

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In primitive Buddhism, representing the figure of Buddha was a taboo, so in the paintings and reliefs where it must appear His figure was replaced by symbols such as footprints, an umbrella, etc. The first Buddha statues were made by East, but by Greek artists' studios have migrated to land in Pakistan and Afghanistan following the conquests carried out by Alexander the Great. This artistic style that develops between the ages IV and V BC AD, lays the groundwork for what will be the Buddhist sculpture to be held from Afghanistan to Japan. It is possible that those who see the Eastern traditions and Buddhism as something new, outside the West, they can be surprisingly two thousand years ago the Olympian Gods and the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from the East were represented in same artistic style of European origin: the Hellenistic. Art Greco-Buddhist Art of Gandhara and flourished for many centuries along the Silk Road. Even today, after so long, we still surprising sweetness and peace that emanate from these statues.








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