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Art
Danto, Arthur C. | December 16, 1991 issue

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The article presents information on art of Tibet. Tibetan art consists largely of paintings and statues of the Buddha himself, as well as of various personages who figure in the increasingly complex cosmology into which the initially simple and parable-based doctrine evolved. This complexity is reflected in the art, which depicts these personages, who have attained varying degrees of enlightenment, enthroned in spaces thronged with other beings, natural and supernatural, spiritual and Celestial. Anyone the least familiar with Buddhist teaching is aware of the distinction between the so-called Lesser and Greater Vehicles-between the Theravada and the Mahayana practices.

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SACRED Art of Tibet, The (Book); ARTS; SPIRITUALITY; MAHAYANA Buddhism; TIBET (China); CHINA
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