Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.167

c10.167

The art-traditions of the old Indian Buddhist monasteries survive to this day in Nepal, Tibet, and China. A magnificent example, splendid in drawing, colour, and composition, and perfectly preserved, is a great painting now in the Ethnographic Museum, Berlin, taken from Pekin by the German military contingent in the Boxer campaign. It represents a scene in the Buddhist heavens, with a crowd of attendant saints and Lamas, nearly life-size.