SE Asia post 1200

1. Art an Architecture of
South and Southeast
Asia after 1200

5. Buddha “Awakened One”
A Buddha is a being that has achieved Enlightenment
(who has achieved the ability to understand the true nature of all things)
and has been released from samsara.
Samsara: birth, disease, death, decay
The historical Buddha is Siddhartha. (b. 563 BCE).

6. The Four Noble Truths:
Life is suffering (suffering = rebirth)
The cause of suffering is desire
The cause of desire must be overcome
When desire is overcome, there is no more
suffering (rebirth)

7. Seated Buddha, (Earth Touching Gesture),
late ninth or early tenth century.

8. First Sermon, late tenth or early eleventh century.

9. Mahayana
(Greater Vehicle)
The goal is rooted in the teachings of the historical Buddha, but seeks
salvation for all beings. This attitude is embodied in the idea of the
bodhisattva whose outstanding quality is compassion.
Bodhisattva
An enlightened being who has achieved Buddhahood, but chooses to
remain in the temporal world to assist others

10. The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, twelfth century, (height 10”).

13. Vajrayana
diamond path
(Mantrayana: incantation vehicle)

15. prayer wheel

16. yer drums(from Nepal in the Kathmandu Valley)
The most popluar matra is of the
bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara:
om
mani
padme
hum

17. Bla ma (Llama).

18. Cambodia

19. Great Stupa at Sanchi, third century BCE.

20. plan of Borobudur.

24. Maya Riding to Lumbini. Link to UNESCO video.

25. Jayavarman VII in Meditation,
twelfth-thirteenth century.

26. Buddha Muchalinda,
twelfth century.

27. Aerial view of Angkor Wat.

28. Angkor Wat (Temple City).

29. Angkor Wat

30. Restoration of Angkor Wat

31. The Bayon, Angkor Thom complex.

32. Bayon, Angkor Thom, twelfth-thirteenth century.

33. Bayon, battle relief.

34. Bayon, the tower

36. Angkor Thom, the west gate.