Open AccessA arte da iluminação
Author(s) -
Fernando Carlos Chamas
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
estudos japoneses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-7125
pISSN - 1413-8298
DOI - 10.11606/issn.2447-7125.v26i0p67-74
Subject(s) - gautama buddha , sculpture , art , painting , art history , visual arts , buddhism , philosophy , theology
When the historical Buddha, Siddharta Gautama, passed to be represented in sculptures and paintings, the artists tried to express the 32 corporal characteristics of the beings that already had reached the illumination, the Buddhas of the Nyorai category.