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Asian Art History

QuestionAnswer
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.
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