Maitreya

Pensive Bodhisattva and Korean Buddhist Art Our lives are closely connected with an art. People easily regard an artwork as something that is far from our lives, but it is always around us. Now, I would like to introduce one of Buddhist artworks of Korea. The title is Pensive Bodhisattva. The artist is unknown. However, it was made in mid-7th century during the Three Kingdom Period. The dimension of this artwork is 8 7/8-inch and the medium is gilt bronze. It is located in Gallery 233 among other

The Paradise of Maitreya is a wall painting by famed painter and Buddhist monk Zhu Haogu and his pupil Zhang Boyuan. It is 502 cm in height and 1101 cm in length, and was created on the southwestern portion of the Xinghua monastery in 1298, during China’s Yuan dynasty. The painting is done through the dry fresco method on one of the clay walls of the monastery, with ink and rich colour pigments being used to create the image itself. The technique used to create this painting was appropriate likely

Another more obvious difference between the Bodhisattva in the Davis Museum is the coloring of each. Unfortunately, time has worn away most of the paint on these heads, but the left Bodhisattva shows more remnants of the original painting, including a small wavy mustache. Red paint can still be seen in the headdress, the urna and the lines of the neck. Both heads have dark paint outlining the eyebrows and the eyes, offering the viewer a look into Gandharan culture. One can see the hair was once painted

Voltaire's Candide and Yeats' "Second Coming” are the two works I will compare, both story shows that there is still good in man and there is still time to change. Yeats writes this “The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world ”. We are the falcon, and God is the falconer, He is controlling the people that are in a downward, and uncontrollable spiral we chose to ignore the voice of God calling out to us. He wants to pull up

In Ancient Pakistan, an area of land known as Gandhara produced a great deal of Buddhist art. The works had a very specific style and set of influences that have been compared by art historians throughout time. The image of what a people call the “Gandharan Buddha” is easily recognizable for its distinct features. However, this image is not always universal between Gandharan art. Different works can share similar features and distinction, but can also have many differences. These can lie in not only

In William Yeats poem, “The Second Coming,” Yeats makes some observations about what has happened before and attempts to parallel the past with the future in order to justify his prediction of the “Second Coming” of Christ. Though interesting and appealing, these predictions and observations doesn’t make Yeats a Nostradamus-like figure who predicts specific, unlikely and unusual events leading up to the fulfillment of an ultimate prophecy, but rather makes similar to a conspiracy theorist spouting

The apocalypse on earth has started, the Anti-Christ a beast of half-human, a half animal is rising to earth, and the world is being pulled into the darkness of hell through the gyre. The poem “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats is about revelations. Throughout this poem, Yeats uses the language and syntax including a new form of writing and literary devices, to the point of the view of the narrator, form, and to show the context. The poem shows Yeats struggle in understanding Christianity

First of all, in chapter five, Atiq went to the mosque for the Isha Prayer. Then, he left and wandered around the city. Unknowingly, he arrived at the jailhouse. He decided to spend the night there. So, he lit up the lamp and lied down. Suddenly, he got scared to see Nazeesh behind him. As you can see, Atiq met Nazeesh a decade ago, when he was a mufti in Kabul. Then, Nazeesh told the sad story of his old father. He also told him that he wanted to die by walking into the ocean. He was describing

Thessalonians Thessalonians is based on two different letters that was written to the Christian community in Thessalonica. The purpose of the first letter was to clear up some of the misunderstandings about the return of Christ. The second letters purpose was to still clear up some of the misunderstandings about the Day of the Lord for they thought the day had already come. The first letter to the Christian community was sent from Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, though Paul was the main author

In “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats, the speaker explains to the reader that the world around him is falling apart. The use of biblical allusions, chaotic imagery, and symbols illustrate how the second coming is not going to be good; things are terrible now, but the worst is yet to come. In the first two lines, the speaker introduces a scene of chaos by saying “TURNING and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer.” A gyre is a tornado-like structure, and it symbolizes