Essay - Buddha Two Images of Buddha the Recent Filed Trip to...

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***** Images of Buddha

***** recent filed trip to the Metropolitan Museum was a remarkable experience, especially when considering these two rendering of the Miroku Bosatsu, in Sanskrit the Maitreya Bodhisattva. The first is a hang*****g scroll and ***** second is a statue, both are ***** the same image of ***** Future Buddha seated in the lotus position with h***** hands in a cl*****ssic mudra, or spiritual hand gesture of mediation. This is the ***** that will return ***** the world and teach the Dahhma, the spiritual way of Buddh*****m. These images are also interesting from a dimensional perspective as well. Although both are of the same almost identical subject, one is a two dimensional representation as a portrait and the o*****r is a three dimensional representation, as a *****.

At ***** glance the sheer size of the statue ***** quite impressive. The texture is the next intrinsic element. Not only ***** the undulating lines of ***** robe and the features on the face of ***** sculpture but also ***** what time has done to deliver a be*****utiful patina to the surface of the metal. ***** feeling ***** age ***** something that cannot be duplicated exactly by its two dimensional counterpart. However, the colors of ***** scroll have probably faded somewhat over time ***** the reddish hue that is left may be the result that time has impressed upon it.

Both *****s are seated on a ***** fountain, ***** detail in the ***** is to scale and quite remarkable. One can feel the image ***** ***** Buddha in a serene ***** peaceful state, and there is somehow the presence of a pe*****ceful courtyard imagined around it. There is, however, ***** a feeling of he*****viness ***** this statue projects and while this adds to the overall impression ***** a *****, in this case the heaviness seems ***** take away from the lightness of ***** ***** the serenity the sculptor ***** trying to project. However, ***** is not ***** case ***** the image on the *****.

The figure on ***** scroll ***** to completely project the energy and lightness of the Maitreya Bodhisattva. This medium also allows a little more input ***** ***** artist. While the ***** certainly ***** a realistic quality ***** it, right down to the fingernails, the painter of the scroll was allowed by the ***** ***** add certain effects and features in order to help create the sacredness and serenity that is associated with these religious figures. There ***** several layers of halos ***** surround the figure on the scroll, ********** an aura to the image that is not available to the sculp*****r. Although the museum has attempted some duplication of ***** effect as you can see ***** the shadows created behind statue. By using perspective ***** artist ***** the scroll ***** given a great deal of dimensionality to the drawing. The crossed legs ***** the Buddha as they join with the fountain have a cert*****in feeling of tangibility ***** depth. This ***** bestows an ethereal quality