Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.185

c7.185

The early Buddhistic art, as we have seen, though it took for its ideal a spiritual rather than a physical type, was so far in sympathy with the Greek that in the representation of the Divinity it never attempted physiological impossibilities. The Buddha was always remembered as the Yogi, a human form, and a type familiar to every Indian, only of a purer, finer substance than ordinary flesh and blood.