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Asian Art History
Question | Answer |
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Steatite | Stone |
Motif | repeating decoration |
Yakshi/Yaksha | Male/Female indegeonus fertility dieties |
Stupa | Buddhist architecture |
Torana | A gateway |
Bodhisattvas | Enlightened beings that vow to help all creatures attain enlightenment |
Ithyphallic | An erect penis that represents power and fertility |
Ascetic | A person who deprives themselves of worldly pleasure |
Relic/Reliquary | A holy person/ home of a holy person |
Ushima/Urna/Mandorla | Atributes that describes a relic. Urna= 3rd Eye Mandorla=Halo Ushima=Hair Bun |
Iconic/Aniconic | Actual figure/ symbol that stands in for the figure |
Karma/Samsara/Nirvana | K-Determines how you will be re-born S- Cycle of birth-death-rebirth N- release from samsara |
Chaitya | Type of Buddhist architecture, *more complex |
Mudra | A hand gesture, religiously symbolic |
Stele/Stela | Boulder that has been carved, A format * ex. Sculpture |
Schist (Gandhara) | A dark, hard stone |
Fresco/Gouache | Painting on plaster |
Hieratic | Involves scale and proportion |
Jakata | A story from the past lives of Buddha |
Mudras (religiously symbolic hand gestures) | Dharmachakra muda-teaching, rotating wheel of law Dhyana mudra-meditation, seated; leg crossed Bhumisparsa mudra- calling the earth to witness (touching the earth) Abhaya mudra- hand raised. have no fear gesture. |