Abstract
The Gandhara region of India was the origin of Buddhist art, and, due to its unique geographical location, it was a place where European and Asian civilizations mingled. The original Gandhara Buddhist art style was largely influenced by the style of Classical Greek sculpture. With the gradual development, its sculpture art and Buddhist stories entered a prosperous period and began to spread eastward, exerting a profound impact on the development of Buddhist art in the early stage of western Regions and later in Xinjiang.
Highlights
The emergence and subsequent development of Buddha statues are largely influenced by foreign cultures and regions
In the view of early Indian Buddhism, the Buddha was a saint of super-ordinary people, so the principle of “Buddha image should not be done” was always adhered to
Until the Kushan Dynasty, with the rise of Mahayana Buddhism and the promotion of the concept of “saving all living beings”, the input of the ancient Greek “anthropomorphism” statue culture in Gandhara, India broke the centuries of taboo that the image of Buddha should not be made
Summary
The emergence and subsequent development of Buddha statues are largely influenced by foreign cultures and regions. Hinayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism developed independently in India and spread to different regions. “The artists of Gandhara followed the example of Greece in the steps of reform.” [3]Some scholars believe that the subsequent writing of a large number of stories about Buddha, from Buddha’s birth, Buddha’s dissemination of the dharma, to Buddha’s nirvana, was influenced by Greek mythology. Was represented an Apollo, followed loyally by Brahma and Indra, the Hindu running gods, who are represented as Zeus and Achilles.”[4] It can be seen that the input of Greek culture had a profound influence on the development of Gandhara Buddhism. This paper will prove the influence of Greek culture on Gandhara Buddhism at the artistic level (Buddha image) by comparing the similarities and differences between the two cultures
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