Arbre de la Bodhithumb|L'arbre Mahabodhi au temple Sri Mahabodhi à Bodh Gaya. L’arbre de la Bodhi est un arbre important dans le bouddhisme, car c'est sous cet arbre, ficus religiosa, qui se trouve à Bodhgaya que le Bouddha atteignit l'éveil (ou l'illumination), un état appelé bodhi. Cet arbre fait l'objet d'une grande vénération parmi les bouddhistes, et des foules de pèlerins viennent pour le voir et se recueillir tout au long de l'année. Le Bouddha, après avoir longtemps médité sous des jambus, aurait atteint l’illumination – ou bodhi – sous un pipal à Bodhgaya.
Hindu artHindu art encompasses the artistic traditions and styles culturally connected to Hinduism and have a long history of religious association with Hindu scriptures, rituals and worship. Hinduism, with its 1.2 billion followers, is the religion of about 15-16 % of the world's population and as such the culture that ensues it is full of different aspects of life that are effected by art. There are 64 traditional arts that are followed that start with the classics of music and range all the way to the application and adornment of jewellery.
JetavanaJetavana (Jeta's grove) was one of the most famous of the Buddhist monasteries or viharas in India (present-day Uttar Pradesh). It was the second vihara donated to Gautama Buddha after the Venuvana in Rajgir. The monastery was given to him by his chief male patron, Anathapindika. Jetavana is located just outside the old city of Savatthi. There was also an important vihara named Jetavana in Sri Lanka. Jetavana was the place where the Buddha gave the majority of his teachings and discourses, having stayed at Jetavana nineteen out of 45 vassas, more than in any other monastery.
AnathapindikaAnathapindika (Anāthapiṇḍika; Anāthapiṇḍada); born Sudatta, was a wealthy merchant, banker, and philanthropist, believed to have been the wealthiest merchant in Savatthi in the time of Gautama Buddha. He is considered to have been the chief male patron of the Buddha. Anathapindika founded the Jetavana Monastery in Savatthi, considered one of the two most important temples in the time of the historic Buddha, the other being Migāramātupāsāda.
Art of MathuraThe Art of Mathura refers to a particular school of Indian art, almost entirely surviving in the form of sculpture, starting in the 2nd century BCE, which centered on the city of Mathura, in central northern India, during a period in which Buddhism, Jainism together with Hinduism flourished in India. Mathura "was the first artistic center to produce devotional icons for all the three faiths", and the pre-eminent center of religious artistic expression in India at least until the Gupta period, and was influential throughout the sub-continent.
Manmodi CavesThe Manmodi Caves are a complex of a rock-cut caves about 3 km to the south of the city of Junnar in India. Other caves surrounding the city of Junnar are: Tulja Caves, Shivneri Caves and Lenyadri caves. It is thought that the caves were positioned on natural trade routes, formed by passes leading from the coast to the basaltic plateau of the Western Ghats. One of the caves in Manmodi has an epigraph mentioning the Western Satrap Nahapana bearing the title of Mahakshatrapa (Great Satrap).
Mauryan polishMauryan polish describes one of the frequent characteristics of architecture and sculptures of the Maurya Empire in India (325 to 185 BCE), which gives a very smooth and shiny surface to the stone material, generally of sandstone or granite. Mauryan polish is found especially in the Ashoka Pillars as well as in some constructions like the Barabar Caves. The technique did not end with the empire, but continued to be "used on occasion up to the first or second century A.D.
Art KushanL'art Kushan, l'art de l'empire Kushan dans le nord de l'Inde, a prospéré entre le et le de notre ère. Il mélangeait les traditions de l'art gréco-bouddhiste du Gandhara, influencé par les canons artistiques hellénistiques, et l' art plus indien de Mathura. L'art kushan suit l'art hellénistique du royaume gréco-bactrien ainsi que l'art indo-grec qui avait prospéré entre le avant notre ère et le de notre ère en Bactriane et dans le nord-ouest de l'Inde.
