Indian Sculpture c9.122
Indian Sculpture c9.122
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c9.122
94. Upekkhā (indifference) is the state in which this face dwells. The four jhāna, etc., a selaborated by the Buddhists, condition cast and physiognomy of the faces of Buddha images. While various centres and various ages tend towards physiognomies approximately expressive of the one or the other jhāna, etc. (Figs. 54, 59, 62), it is not possible to assign any of these faces definitely to one of them. Their terminology is—and has to be—more rigid than the plastic context and its expression.