Saturday, April 9, 2016

Mod 10

I chose the two videos, Buddhism and Hinduism because they are two aspects of art that i never thought about. I wanted to look at something from a new perspective and learn about something I did not think I would be interested in.
For Buddhism the important facts and interesting facts that I thought of:
-Began in India
- The gateway to the temple was made of granite and hung was the teachings of the Buddha
-The key to Buddhist teaching is Thanh
-The mission was to share his enlightenment
-The last lesson before the Buddha died was all compounds wear out, walk out your own way with dignity.
-About one hundred years after he died, Buddhism split into two groups 1.monks 2. manana
-3rd to 7th century AD Sanchi became the center of Buddhist art and architecture
-Great Stoupa-
-Stones that were on the building each had a message
-Buddha disappears into symbolism
-The art is supported by the skill of the architect
-The walk way around the Great Stoupa had amazing woodwork.
-The largest Buddhist shrine in the world was Borobudur in Indonesia.
- In the 8th century, the king built a mountain temple made of 60 thousand square meters of lava rock
-The whole structure is in the form of a lotus
-14,000 carvings to walk through with the teachings of Buddha
-Borobudur took almost 100 years to build and lasted just 30 years as a pilgrimage
-Volcanoes erupt and covered it, but it was restored int he early 1900's
-This is now the standing proof pf the spread of Buddhism through India
-Chuang Yen Monastery is in upstate New York and is s bunch of buildings dedicated to Buddhism,
-Was completed in 1985
-There is an architecture of simplicity in all the buildings
- You must leave shoes at the door to respect the sacred place.
-They used a glue lamb structure that reflects the spirit of Chuang Yen Monastery
-The focal point is the statue of Buddha that took 8 years to make-the building had to be built around it
-Buddhism is in every Asian country besides India where it was created.
In the second video Hinduism:
-To the western eye Hinduism seems exotic and mysterious
-Varanasi is the oldest inhabited city- holiest city of Hinduism
-The great Ganges is a great symbol of Hinduism
- Hindus can worship anywhere and had a great number of gods and goddesses
-Hindu worship invests their tome into elaborate decorations
-At the end, Hindus believed that we all arrive at the same point and they all hope to die in Varanasi
-Mamallapuram where the Ganges turn to stone
-they start turning the underground into cave art
-In the 7th century they turned the wood architecture into stone
-Ancient shore temples is a tiny treasure house that contains a stone Phallus
-Recovered from Bay of Bengal in Khajuraho, 9th century Kandriya Mahadeva temple
-was the golden age of Hinduism art and architecture
-They wanted to get the impression of a mountain and was most famous for its erotic panels
The videos help me always better understand the text because it gives you a bigger visual outlook onto what is going on rather than just the pictures even thought that is kind of what we see in the video. Watching someone tell you what is going on is easier to understand at times than  reading it and having to think about what something might actually look like. I actually really liked these films and was very interested in them, If it wasn't for this class i probably would have never looked into the Buddhism and Hinduism of art or even the religion itself. The videos gave us a bit of insight on both and the art was amazing to see.


















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