CHAPTER 15

SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

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Quiz

• Half sheet of paper

• Title: Ch. 15

• Don’t forget your name

• 1. Buddhist walk around stupas in a clockwise direction, believing the circular movement brings devotees into ________ with the cosmos.

A. a trance

B. alignment

C. harmony

D. peace

Great Stupa, Sanchi India

• 2. What is a stupa?

A. a large, mound-shaped Buddhist shrine

B. a large, mound- shaped Islamic mosque

C. a large, mound0 shaped Christian church

D. a large amphitheater

• 3. Scholars all agree on two essential points: that Borobudur is dependent on _______ art, literature, and religion, and that nothing comparable exists in ______ itself.

• A. China • B. India • C. Korea • D. Islam

• Borobudur Temple

• 4. Angkor Wat, built by Suryavarman II to associate the Khmer king with the god ________.

• A. Vishnu

• B. Vedas

• C. Siddartha

• D. Buddha

• 5. Shiva as Lord of the Dance depicts the god balancing on one leg atop a dwarf representing ___________.

• A. ignorance

• B. peace

• C. harmony

• D. hate

• The ruler Ashoka erected and dedicated monuments to Buddhism, he erected and dedicated monuments to the Buddha throughout his empire- shrines, monasteries, and the columns commonly called Ashokan pillars.

• In his impassioned propagation of Buddhism, perhaps as a means of securing his enormous empire, Ashoka stimulated an intensely rich period of art.

Standing Buddha

• At the site of Bamiyan, were two enormous Buddhas carved from the rock of a cliff, one some 115 feet in height, the other about 165 feet.

• Pilgrims could walk within the cliff up a staircase on the right side of the smaller figure that ended at the Buddha’s shoulder.

• There they could look into the vault of the niche and see a painted image of he sun god, suggesting a metaphoric pilgrimage to the heavens.

• These huge figures likely served as the model for those at rock-cut sanctuaries in China.

• Ignoring the pleas of the world leaders, the Taliban demolished the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001.

Great Stupa at Sanchi

• Video

• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/ancient-asia/buddhist-art-culture/v/aam-stupa

• 5 min.

Flashcard

Great Stupa, Sanchi

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Level 1

Reliquary World Mountain

Harmika Yasti & Chatras

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Borobudur

Angkor, the temple of Angkor Wat

• video

• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/southeast-asia/v/angkor-temple-mountains

• 5 min.

Angkor Wat Flashcard

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Bas-relief

Angkor Thom detail of corbelled arch

plan

Tower of the Bayon

Visvanatha Temple, Khajuraho

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Lakshmana Temple

• The temple was dedicated to Shiva at Khajuraho, in central India, was probably built by a ruler of the Chandella dynasty in the late tenth or early eleventh century.

• The temple is in the northern style, with a curvilinear shikhara rising over its garbha griha. Larger, more extensively ornamented, and expanded through the addition of halls on the front and porches to the sides and back, the temple seems at first glance to have little in common with its precursor at Deogarth.

• As at Deogarth, the temple rests on a stone terrace that sets off a sacred space from the mundane world.

• A steep flight of stairs at the front leads to a series of 3 halls, called manadapas (distinguished from the outside by pyramidal roofs)

• The mandapas serve as spaces for ritual, such as dances performed for the deity, and for the presentation of offerings.

• The temple is built of stone blocks using only post-and-lintel construction.

• Because vault and arch techniques are not used, the interior spaces are not large.

• The Khajuraho temples are especially well known for their numerous erotic sculptures. Please find information in your text about these sculptures.

Shiva as Natarajahandout

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