A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c10.s2.3

c10.s2.3

A Buddha with long hair and moustaches, although not unknown even now in Japan, would seem strange and improper to most modern Buddhists. In Gandhāra such a presentation of the Master long continued to be legitimate, and the legend of the cutting of his locks when he dismissed the charioteer, although not absolutely unfamiliar, was usually ignored in sculpture.