Lord Buddha

Lord Buddha

Gandhar School,1st Century CE. 

 

 

 The Gandhar artist soon fell in love with the lyrical quality of the Indian face: the quite, meditative eyes, the acquiline nose, the bow arched lips, the long ears, the slender neck caught his attention. 

Believing in the Greek philosophy that Man is made in the image of the duvine, the Gandhar artist made Lord Buddha in human image. Till then, Lord Buddha was depicted symbolicly as in Sanchi. Gandhar artist gave Him an anthromorphic form. In fact, the iconography of Hindu art begins with Buddhist art-- a fact we rarely acknowledge. The serenity, the tranquility, the realism of this piece is unsurpassable. To look at this sculpture of Lord Buddha is to realize the Divine, and to feel blessed.