humanities

Introduction to Global Humanities

Hindu and Buddhist Traditions
Directions: Please search for all of the following artworks on the web site for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org You will find that you can enlarge the images, zoom in and out for close-ups or wider views, and scroll up or down and/or side to side. For some of the artworks, particularly three-dimensional sculptures, The Met has given you more than one image, so you can see the artwork from different vantages. You will also find that The Met has provided its own description and discussion for each of these artworks. Of course you should read that text to get some ideas. , you are asked to USE YOUR OWN WORDS in describing and discussing each art-work as clearly and completely as you can,

Description: Please try to describe the artwork clearly and completely, so that someone who is not looking at it can imagine it quite well. Please note the positioning of the figure(s) and/or the action, and/or the facial expressions and/or the hand gestures, and/or the colors and/or the textures and/or other details that catch your attention. Four or five sentences will probably be plenty. , but less than that will be neither clear nor complete.

For the discussion part, there are a number of possible considerations. You should start by discussing how this visual artwork relates to your recent reading. You can also relate this artwork to other artworks, if you want to, in terms of subject matter and/or style and/or physical materials and/or national/cultural origins and/or other considerations that interest you. Again, four or five sentences will probably be plenty. but less than that will be neither clear nor complete.
Reading:
collated selections from:
Mythology, edited by C. Scott Littleton;
The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe, edited by Forrest McGill;
World Mythology, written by Donna Rosenberg;
World Mythology, edited by Roy Willis

excerpts from:
The Hungry Tigress: Buddhist Legends and Jataka Tales, by Rafe Martin
Ten Lives of the Buddha: Siamese Temple Paintings and Jataka Tales, by Elizabeth Wray, Clare Rosenfield, Dorothy Bailey and Joe Wray

excerpts from: The Hungry Tigress: Buddhist Legends and Jataka Tales, by Rafe Martin,
with an insert, compiled by your professor, which provides enumerations and explanations of
The Four Noble Truths and The Noble Eightfold Path

Finally, you are asked whether you have additional commentary to add. This would be an appropriate place to express your opinion about the artwork. Two sentences here would be enough—one for your opinion, and one for your reason.

On The Met’s web site, you will find the search button in the upper right-hand corner. After you click the word “Search,” you will be given a box. In that search box, all you have to input is the accession number, which I have provided for each artwork. I have also given you the identification of the artwork as it will appear when you find it. With that, you can be certain that you have put the accession number in correctly and found the right artwork. In some cases, you might need to scroll down to find the identification that you see here on the test. Again, though, all you really need to input is the accession number, exactly as I have given it to you here. (HINT: Copy and paste the accession number from this test into the search box!)

1) ACCESSION NUMBER: 68.46
IDENTIFICATION: Vishnu
DESCRIPTION:
DISCUSSION:
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2) ACCESSION NUMBER: 1987.80.01
IDENTIFICATION: Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)
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3) ACCESSION NUMBER: 57.51.3
IDENTIFICATION: Parvati
DESCRIPTION:
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4) ACCESSION NUMBER: 2015.500.4.12
IDENTIFICATION: Ganesha
DESCRIPTION:
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5) ACCESSION NUMBER: 2012.444.1
IDENTIFICATION: The Goddess Durga Slaying Mahisha
DESCRIPTION:
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6) ACCESSION NUMBER: 1994.310
IDENTIFICATION: King Dasaratha and His Retinue Proceed to Rama’s Wedding: Folio from the Shangri Ramayana Series (Style II)
DESCRIPTION:
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7) ACCESSION NUMBER: 1974.148
IDENTIFICATION: Rama and Lakshmana Search in Vain for Sita: Illustrated folio from a dispersed Ramayana series
DESCRIPTION:
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8) ACCESSION NUMBER: 1982.220.9
IDENTIFICATION: Hanuman Conversing
DESCRIPTION:
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9) ACCESSION NUMBER: 2001.541
IDENTIFICATION: The Demon Kumbhakarna Is Defeated by Rama Lakshmana: Folio from a Dispersed Ramayana Series
DESCRIPTION:
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10) ACCESSION NUMBER: 2008.163
IDENTIFICATION: The Combat of Rama and Ravana
DESCRIPTION:
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11) ACCESSION NUMBER: 65.29.3
IDENTIFICATION: Buddha Dipankara (Diguang)
DESCRIPTION:
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12) ACCESSION NUMBER: 2015.500.4.1
IDENTIFICATION: The Death of the Buddha
DESCRIPTION:
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13) ACCESSION NUMBER: 25.227.1
IDENTIFICATION: Par Nirvana (death and transcendence of the Buddha) and attendant arhats
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14) ACCESSION NUMBER: 26.123
IDENTIFICATION: Buddha Maitreya (Mile fo)
DESCRIPTION:
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15) ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004.139
IDENTIFICATION: Amitabha, the Buddha of the Western Pure Land (Sukhavati)
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