Comparing Buddha And Siddhartha Gautama

The depictions of Buddha/Siddhartha Gautama have various depictions, postures and gestures in the regions of India and Southeastern Asia due to the different cultural and architectural influences of other civilizations over time. With every posture depicted of Buddah each contains a different hand gestures which are known as the Mudras. The seated Buddha from second century Gandhara or modern day Pakistan carved from gray schist and influenced by classic Greek culture. Together these mixture of culture and architecture is known as Greco- Roman art. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and article written by Kurt Behrendt asserts that, “In 330 B.C., Alexander the Great gain power over Gandhara and with the help of the Indo-Greek kings that came after him, Alexander introduced new traditions of art that became an important part of Gandhara's art and the way in which Buddha is portrayed in that particular
This is a representation of the constant energy of order. In the picture given in the class Module on slide forty shows Buddha sitting with his hands laid over lapping each other known as the Dhyana or gesture of meditation, through which Buddha gained enlightenment. The seated Buddha has many other gestures used to show different meanings of Buddha’s life such as the gesture of discord or the Kartari mudra, with right hand at shoulder level with thumb and ring finger touching. Besides the gestures of Buddha the life and death of Buddha also have many significant meanings in the art of Buddha’s birth Lumbini and his death Kushinagara. The frieze from Gandhara, Pakistan, second century CE shows different depictions of his life and death in human form. The frieze shows Buddha laying down illustrating his death and his life is depicted through showing him in his teachings to