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| _______________ art expresses religious ideologies, expresses beauty & love, immortalizes, expresses rituals and customs, expresses fantasy, creates order and harmony, expresses chaos and war, and reflects the social and cultural context. |
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| ______________ is a vast geographic area consisting of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh and the island nation of Sri Lanka. |
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During the period of 1,500 BCE an Indo-European grup, the Aryans moved into India, which used Sanskrit to compose the four Vedic texts; the religious doctrines of this period. The rituals performed by the Aryan priests or Brahmins were complex and lengthy; however, no images of the Aryan gods have been found. Their deities functioned as gods of elements: Indra-Rains, Varuna-Ocean and Surya-Sun. |
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| The birth of Buddhism, originated in Northern India (present-day Nepal), is centered on the life and struggle for enlightenment by Prince ________________. Current scholarship places his birth at around 40 BCE and his road to enlightenment followed a path of self-discipline and self-denial. |
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| One of the earliest narrative cycles in which the Buddha appears in human form originated from _______________. |
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a.Gandhara
b.Sarnath
c.Karle
d. Ajanta
e. Sanchi
Answer is a
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| The iconography of the frieze at Gandhara is Buddhist, but the sculptor also used ___________ reliefs as a stylistic model. |
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a. Cambodian
b. Roman
c. Javanese
d. Greek
e. Egyptian
Answer is b
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a. was a type of mandala or cosmic diagram.
b. was an architectural structure.
c. often contained relics.
d. was circumambulated by the faithful.
e. All of these answers.
Answer is e
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| The Buddha's attribues included _____________. |
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a. an ushnisha, an urna, and elongated ears
b. an ushnisha and an urna, but not elongated ears
c. an urna
d. elongated ears
e. an ushnisha
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| Among the animals and other figures on the toranas at Sanchi were female figures known as _________. |
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a. yakshis
b. stupas
c. chaityas
d. chatras
Answer is a
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| Co-existing with Buddhism was ___________ and its pantheon of gods and goddesses. |
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a. Hinduism
b.Hittite
c. Hsien
Answer is a
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| The _________ temple represents the preoccupation with humanity's release from the world of illusion and its subsequent absorption into the divine. |
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| Shiva as Nataraja represents Shiva as the Lord of the Dance. This becomes a symbol for the: |
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a. cosmos and the creation cycle, steady and constant
b. cosmos and teh death cycle, steady and constant
c. cosmos and the creations cycle, unbalanced and irregualr
Answer is a
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