History of art . Buddhist Art (early Tang, vii Century).{J. Doucet Collection.) Bodhisatva CHINA 73. liarmonies of nature, an intimate and continuous co-herence, in which the serenity of the heart fixes itself,becomes immobile, and demonstrates to itself its certi-tude and necessity. But beneath the great need forunity and calmness,fetishism and magic patiently assert their I rights. The placingof the edifice, the in-variably unevennumber of roofs su-perimposed on oneanother and turnedup at the corners—a memory of Mongoltents—the little bellsjingling at the slight-est breeze, the mon-sters of
History of art . Buddhist Art (early Tang, vii Century).{J. Doucet Collection.) Bodhisatva CHINA 73. liarmonies of nature, an intimate and continuous co-herence, in which the serenity of the heart fixes itself,becomes immobile, and demonstrates to itself its certi-tude and necessity. But beneath the great need forunity and calmness,fetishism and magic patiently assert their I rights. The placingof the edifice, the in-variably unevennumber of roofs su-perimposed on oneanother and turnedup at the corners—a memory of Mongoltents—the little bellsjingling at the slight-est breeze, the mon-sters of terra cottaon the openworkcornices, the moralmaxims paintedeverywhere, thescrolls of gildedwood, the wholemass of thorn bushes,arrises, crests, brist-ling and clawlikeforms—everythingshows how con-stantly the Chinese were concerned with attractingthe genii of wind and water to the edifice and tothe neighboring houses, or of keeping them observe a similar idea in the great artificial parks,where all the accidents of the earths surface, moun-tains, rocks, brooks, cascades, forests, a
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