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1 Name: Due Date: Homework B: India and Southeast Asia Please answer these questions as you read Chapter 3 of your textbook, which deals with Buddhist and Hindu art. There is a brief examination of Islamic art in India as well. The worksheet has been divided up into three sections. Please note you do not need to read the section on Jain art; it will not be covered in this course. Section 1: Introduction to India and Buddhist Art 1. What are the four great religions of India? 2. Define darsana: 3. How do Hindus envision their temples? 4. What is the name of the mountain believed to be at the center of the Buddhist image of the universe? 5. Define stupa: 6. What is the name of the earliest Indian civilization, and give its dates.

2 7. List some of the subjects found on seals that reappear later in Buddhist and Hindu art. 8. T F The script of the Indus Valley people has been deciphered. 9. T F Tribhanga is a term for the three bends pose popular in Indian figures. 10. T F No images survive from the early Aryan people that migrated to India. Theymay have been another aniconic people. 11. After a series of bloody military campaigns, the Emperor converted to Buddhism and commissioned a number of Buddhist artworks. 12. The imperial pillar erected at Sarnath is topped by 4 lions that represent two things. They are: a. b. 13. The Great Stupa, or Mahastupa, is located where? (Read this section carefully. We will cover this monument extensively in class and you will need to label parts of the Stupa on Quiz B). 14. What does your textbook author say about the content rock-cut Buddhist chiatya halls? They confound : 15. Some of the earliest Kushan era Buddhist statues may have been carved by itinerant (traveling) artists trained in. 16. What are three of the distinguishing marks of the Buddha?

3 17. T F The finest surviving Buddhist paintings from the Gupta period are located in the Ajanta caves. 18. T F Cow dung and clay were spread on the walls prior to painting the images. 19. T F Figure 3.14 depends on a lot of shading and modeling to create the body of the Beautiful Bodhisattva. 20. T F The Colossal Buddha of Afghanistan was destroyed by the Taliban in Who destroyed Buddhist and Hindu centers of worship in India in the 11 th and 12 th centuries? Where did many Buddhist monks flee to as a result? 22. Buddhism was combined with a mythical religion known as Bon to create or Buddhism. 23. The best known type of painting in Tibet are created on, that is, rolled up cloths. 24. List some of the subject found on Figure 3.16? 25. The Fifth Dalai Lama unified Tibet, consolidated all political and religious power in his person, and built the famous Monastery-Palace.

4 Section 2: Hindu and Islamic Art in India 26. T F Hinduism is actually much older than Buddhism. 27. T F In parts of India the Buddha was identified as an incarnation of the God Vishnu. 28. T F The Hindu text the Bhagavad Gita teaches the important concept of forming a strong bond between the self and the deity (bhakt). 29. Figure 3.21 shows the Descent of the Ganges. It is a busy sculpture that is not narrative and gives little sense of any space or time because it represents all: 30. Figure 3.25 illustrates one of the greatest southern Hindu temples ever constructed. What is it called? How tall is the vimana? Which deity is it dedicated to? 31. What is a lingam? 32. What does Shiva s dance do to the universe? Is this a bad thing? 33. How are Hindu temples in the north different from the temples in the south? 34. What is the name of the classic temple shown in Figure 3.27?

5 35. How does the author describe the figures used to decorate these northern (Chandella) temples around the city of Khajuraho? 36. Some of the largest and finest Hindu temples outside of India are located in the Cambodian capital city of. 37. What do the moats outside the temple represent? What do the 5 towers inside the walls represent? 38. What was the name of the large and powerful Islamic dynasty that ruled in northern India? 39. What type of subjects were painted by artists under the patronage of Akbar? 40. The mausoleum of Shahjahan s favorite wife Mumtaz Muhal is called the: 41. What is the above building made of? 42. Why wasn t Shahjahan buried in a matching mausoleum connected to this world famous structure? 43. What are the names of the lovers shown in Figure 3.38?

TOPIC: ALL OF TERMINOLOGY LIST 3

TOPIC: ALL OF TERMINOLOGY LIST 3 This chapter covers the religion, art and architecture of the people of South and Southeast Asia prior to 1200 CE. We will discuss the Indus Valley culture, the Vedic, Maurya, Shugas, Andhras, Kushan,