Hindu (800-1400 CE) Flashcards
Angkor temple
Moat
Enter through western gate (where sun rises over on summer solstice)
Symbol of Hindu cosmology (represents mountain and sea)
Reservoirs and canals
Galleries (pyramid and tapered towers)
Rectangular
Gate (with a five-headed-serpent)
Churning of the Ocean of Milk (low relief sculpture with Vishnu chruning the cosmic ocean for the elixir of immortality)
King embodies a deity (reunion after death)
Angkor temple IDs
Cambodia
Hindu
800-1400 CE
Angkor dynasty
Stone and sandstone
Lakshmana temple
Built on a platform
Represents Mount Kailasa (home of the deities)
Facilitates darshan (eye contact with the deity)
Axis mundi
Open-air covered porches
Garbhagriha (“womb chamber”, where the deities reside in the mountain, holds the statue of the deity)
Shrines to incarnations of Vishnu
Sikhara (towers that get taller the further you go, covered in amalakas)
Sculptures (divinity, humans, sex, etc.)
Adornment (upon entering, apotropaic, protects prosperity, reflects generosity of the gods)
Lakshmana temple IDs
India
Hindu
930-950 CE
Chandella period
Sandstone
Shiva as Lord of Dance
Paraded around towns to allow people a divine union
Androgynous
Idealized male body (smooth, volumptious, nature-like)
Difficult to access in the temple (facilitates darshan)
Shiva (dancing the dance of destruction)
Torana (ring of flame/cosmic fire)
Multiple arms (divine power/strength of skills)
Veshti (garment around waist worn by Hindu priests)
Sacred thread (priestly)
Tandava (dance of destruction)
Earrings (water creature and a woman earring, represents cosmic balance between men and women)
Third eye (cosmic knowledge)
Snake (reference to triumph in a forest where he neutralized snakes)
Ganga (river ganges)
Demon (under his foot, represents triumph over ignorance)
Lotus (transcendental, grows from muddy water to become beautiful)
Hands (drum, snake, gesture, and flame)
Shiva as Lord of Dance IDs
Nataraja
Hindu
India
11th century
Cast bronze
Chola period
