Karteikarten
ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF INDIA TERMINOLOGY
Karten in diesem Stapel (29)
- 1SHILPAart and craft
- 2SHASTRArules
science
and basic knowledge - 3RASA THEORYthe viewer's essence must be moved enough in order for something to be considered art
- 4RASIKAthe viewer
- 5NATYA SHASTRAthe science of dance
- 6DHARMA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE)virtue
- 7ARTHA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE)wealth
- 8KAMA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE)love
- 9MOKSHA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE)liberation
- 10VEDAknowledge
- 11RIGVEDAtext from 1300 BCE
10 hymns by Indra (war) and Agni (fire) - 12ARYAnoble
- 13MANTRAa verse
- 14MUDRAgesture
- 15BRAHMINvedic priest
- 16KSHATRIYAvedic warrior
- 17VAISHYAvedic merchant
- 18SHUDRAvedic manual laborer
- 19THE BUDDHAcame from the SHAKYA clan
found enlightment under pipal/bodhi tree
gave first sermon in deer park
four signs- age, sickness, death, renunciation - 20DHAMMABuddhist Doctrine
- 21SAMGHAbuddhist monastic community
- 22BHIKKUBuddhist monks
- 23STUPAmound or heap of earth
- 24PRADAKSHINAcircumambulation
- 25VIHARABhuddist Monastary
- 26CHAITYA GRIHAprayer hall
- 27CHATTRAThe umbrella on top of a stupa which symbolizes the pipal tree under which the Buddha found enlightenment.
- 28HARMIKAFence around the chattra on a stupa.
- 29TORANAGates found around the stupa in the four cardinal directions which symbolize the far reaching scope of Bhuddism.