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2000
Description
Based on a wooden prototype, the four gateways of the main stupa at Sanci, are animated by diverse sculpted figures : Yaksas, Salabhanjikas, real or imaginary animals. In this frame are integrated Buddhist stories, represented in bas-relief. In a whole, the absence of a strict sculptural program, the repetition of themes and the emphasis on the historic life of the Buddha at the cost of the jataka tales of the previous lives, can be explained by the practise of individual donations. Rather than aimed to illustrate the Buddhist doctrine in a systematic way, the message carried by the sculpture of the four gateways of the stupa is intended to reach the largest number of lay worshippers. Every detail calls to the bystander to enter the world of the Buddha. Behind the first impression of density arising from the sculpted panels, some simple principles of composition are the base of more or less complex narrative systems : narratives composed of successive episodes, metonymic narration, regrouping of anachronistic epidodes, narratives combining linearity and duality, narratives broken up into several panels, non-linear narratives.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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Publié le
01 janvier 2000
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Langue
Français
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Poids de l'ouvrage
6 Mo