Buddhism in its connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism and in its contrast with Christianity . rst of all, his image was joined with the othertwo persons of the earliest Triad (see p. 175), viz. Dharma(the Law) and Sangha (the Monkhood). A sculpture, ina broken and imperfect condition, representing thisearliest Triad, and dating from the ninth to the tenthcentury, was found at Buddha-Gaya. The image ofBuddha, under an umbrella-like tree, is in the centre ;that of the Sangha is on his right, with a full-blow^n ^ See especially an image in the British Museum. In China Bas-relief images of Buddha
Buddhism in its connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism and in its contrast with Christianity . rst of all, his image was joined with the othertwo persons of the earliest Triad (see p. 175), viz. Dharma(the Law) and Sangha (the Monkhood). A sculpture, ina broken and imperfect condition, representing thisearliest Triad, and dating from the ninth to the tenthcentury, was found at Buddha-Gaya. The image ofBuddha, under an umbrella-like tree, is in the centre ;that of the Sangha is on his right, with a full-blow^n ^ See especially an image in the British Museum. In China Bas-relief images of Buddha are sometimes inserted by Buddhist priestsin large mussel-shells while the animal is living, and are coveredby it with a coating of mother of pearl. This they call a miracle. Anexample is in the Indian Institute, presented by Mrs. Newman Smith. IMAGES OF OTHER BUDDHAS AND BODHI-SATTVAS. 485 lotus (p. I ^^^ note 2), and having one leg hanging down,while that of Dharma (a female) is on his left witha half-blown lotus. A drawing of this (from Sir photograph) is given below :—. 111 Nepal the image of Dharma is always that of asedent female, who is supposed to be an embodimentof supreme wisdom (prajiia paramita), and sometimeshas four arms (see note, p. 178). Next come the images of the Buddhas who precededGautama, especially Kasyapa Buddha, Kanaka-muni,and Kraku-cchanda. It is often mentioned that theimages of one or other of these three, as of the Bodhi-sattvas, are set up side by side with that of Gautama. Then, of course, there are the images of the fiveDhyani-Buddhas, Perhaps the commonest of these isthat of Amitabha (see p. 203), but images of Akshobhyaand Eatna-sambhava are by no means rare. Then as to the Bodhi-sattvas, of whom Maitreya isthe first and the only one worshipped by Buddhists of 486 IMAGES OF MAITEEYA AND MANJU-SRI. all countries (see p. 182), Fa-hien records that he sawin Northern India a wooden image of Maitreya Bodhi-sattva eighty cubits high
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