Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.119

c6.119

Western Indian school seems to have exercised some influence on the wall-paintings of the Buddhist temples at Pagan, Burma. Iconographically, the wall-paintings of Pagan belong to both major schools of Buddhism—the Therāvāda and the Mahāyāna including Vajrayāna and Tantrayāna. There was, however, such an element of eclecticism in the religious life of Pagan for nearly two hundred and fifty years that the Brahmanical deities like Śiva, Brahmā, Sūrya, Vishnu and Garuḍa, appear freely moving among the members of allied faiths⁵⁸.