{"id":550,"date":"2021-02-27T23:33:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T04:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/?p=550"},"modified":"2021-12-31T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T00:53:08","slug":"head-of-the-fasting-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/image\/head-of-the-fasting-buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of the Fasting Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Title:<\/strong>&nbsp;Head of the Fasting Buddha<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Gandhara, Pakistan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Period:<\/strong> 2nd Century -3rd Century<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Culture:<\/strong>&nbsp;Kushan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Medium:<\/strong>&nbsp;Schist Stone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dimensions:<\/strong>&nbsp;Diameter: 18.50 centimetres Height: 22.30 centimetres Weight: 7 kilograms (estimated weight) Width: 12.70 centimetres<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Repository:<\/strong>&nbsp;British Museum (London, England)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/505216001-1-828x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/505216001-1-828x1024.jpg 828w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/505216001-1-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/505216001-1-768x950.jpg 768w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/505216001-1-1242x1536.jpg 1242w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/505216001-1-1656x2048.jpg 1656w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/505216001-1-1246x1541.jpg 1246w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/505216001-1-675x835.jpg 675w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/505216001-1-480x593.jpg 480w, https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/505216001-1.jpg 2022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sculpture depicts a deprived Buddha, who is fasting in the search of enlightenment. The sculpture does an amazing job of setting such as seen with his eyes being gorged into his sockets, sunken cheeks, and a pronounces cervical vertebrae. The buddha pursued an ascetic life, avoidance of all forms of indulgence, for a portion of his life until he began to\u00a0focus on the practice of meditation. His search for such enlightenment began when saw the &#8216;four sights&#8217;: an old man, a sick man, a corpse, and an ascetic. Leaving his luxurious life as a prince, he journeyed for answers to sufferings and pain. What sets this sculpture apart from other fasting Buddhas is the two squiggly lines that connect his hairline with a circle in between his eyes. Might this be a reference to an awakening of a third eye? or his hair has been consumed and is reflecting the ridges of his veins? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collection\/object\/A_1907-1228-1\">https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collection\/object\/A_1907-1228-1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/asset\/schist-head-of-the-fasting-buddha\/qgGDDQq1b7GZkA\">https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/asset\/schist-head-of-the-fasting-buddha\/qgGDDQq1b7GZkA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:&nbsp;Head of the Fasting Buddha Location: Gandhara, Pakistan Period: 2nd Century -3rd Century Culture:&nbsp;Kushan Medium:&nbsp;Schist Stone Dimensions:&nbsp;Diameter: 18.50 centimetres Height:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[27,42,9],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","tag-buddhism","tag-gandhara","tag-pakistan","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}