India and South East Asia
CHRONOLOGY
2,600 – 1,900 BCE: Indus Valley (Harappa) Civilization
1,750 – 322 BCE: Vedic Period
c. 563 – 483 BCE: Shakyamuni Buddha
322 – 185 BCE: Maurya Dynasty
185 BCE – 50 CE: Shunga Dynasty
185 BCE – 50 CE: Early Andhra Dynasty
1st century – 3rd century CE: Kushan Dynasty
c. 30 BCE – 433 CE: Later Andhra Dynasty
c. 320 – 480 CE: Gupta Period
Mid 9th century – late 13th century CE: Chola Dynasty
Harappan
3300–1300 BCE; mature period 2600–1900 BCE
Square Stamp
Seal of a Zebu
Date: C. 2300-1750 BCE
Medium: White Steatite
Location; Mohenjo Daro,
Indus Valley.
Bearded Man
Date: c. 2000 BCE
Medium: Limestone
Location: Mohenjo
Daro, Indus Valley.
Dancing Girl
Date: c. 2300-1750 BCE
Medium: Bronze
Location: Mohenjo Daro,
Indus Valley
Hinduism
EST. 1000-500 BCE
Shiva Nataraja,
in the Cosmic
Dance
Circle of Flames
Drum
Date 12th Century CE
Medium: Bronze
Location: Thanjavur,
Tamil Nadu, India
Fire
Feet Indicating
Motion
Finger Pointing
to Foot
Dwarf
Parvati
Date: 12th Century
Medium: Stone
Location: India
Dancing Ganesh
Date: 11th C.
Medium: Stone
Location: North
Bengal
Vishnu
Date: 8th Century
Medium: Copper
Location: Andhra
Padesh or Tamil Nadu,
India
Crown
Conch
Wheel
Sacred Thread
Lotus Flower
Club
God Vishnu and
Goddess
Lakshmi
Date: 1000 CE
Medium: Sandstone
Location: India
Hindu Architecture
Residence of a God
Northern Style and Southern Style
Northern Style Temple
Vishvanatha
temple,
Khajuraho
Date: Chandella
dynasty, c. 1,000 CE
Location: Madhya
Pradesh, India
Southern Style Temple
Rajarajeshvara Temple to
Shiva, Thanjavur
Date: Chola dynasty, 1,003–1,010 CE
Location: Tamil Nadu, India
Buddhism
The Enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama
Est. around 1st Century C.E.
Bodhisattava Ushnisha
Buddha Preaching the
First Sermon
Date: 5th Century
Medium: Sandstone
Location: Archaeological
Museum Sarnath, India
Urna
Elongated Ears
Mudra
Wheel on
Bottom of feet
Predella
Lotus Position
Gandhara School
Standing Buddha
Medium: Schist
Date: Kushan period, c. 2nd–3rd
century CE
Location: Gandhara, Pakistan.
Buddhist Architecture
The Stupa
Great Stupa, Sanchi
Date: Founded 3rd century BCE, enlarged c. 150–50 BCE
Location: Madhya Pradesh, India
East torana of the Great
Stupa at Sanchi
Medium: Stone
Date: Early Andhra period,
mid-1st century BCE
Yakshi bracket figure
Medium: Stone
Location: On the east torana of
the Great Stupa at Sanchi
Lion Capital
from Sarnath
Date: c. 250 B.C.E
Medium: Sandstone
Location:
Archaeological
Museum, Sarnath,
India
CHAITYA HALL
Chaitya hall at
Karla.
Date: 1st Century
BCE to 1st Century
CE
Location:
Maharashtra, India.
Religions of India
BUDHIST
Central Figure:
Buddha (Man, not a god)
HINDU
Central Figures:
Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Laksmi, and Parvati
(Polytheistic)
Understanding of Life:
Full of pain and suffering, reincarnation, aim
to end reincarnation and achieve oneness
with the supreme spirit.
Understanding of Life:
“the Religions of Hindustan (India)”
Lead a good Life Through prayer, good deeds
and religious devotion to break the cycle of
Reincarnation.
Mingling of Vedic beliefs, indigenous beliefs,
local beliefs and practices
Symbols:
The Lion: Buddha’s Royalty
The Wheel: Buddhist Law
Lotus: Buddha’s pure nature. (Grows in
swamps, mud slides off.)
Columns surrounded by wheels: Buddha’s
Teaching.
Empty Throne: Buddha, or a reminder of his
presence.
Symbols:
Sexualism and Human form.
Earth (Fire, earth, Wind, Water)
Human Behaviors, dancing.
Multiple arms or Anthropomorphic images.
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Philippines
Singapore
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Vietnam
Angkor Vat
Date: 12th century
Location: Angkor, Cambodia
Battle Scene
Medium: Detail of relief sculpture
Location: Angkor Vat