after being screwed badly by jury...
I decided to go for trip with my friend.Its my 6th or 7th trip towards jungles of bandipur...
but this time i was going with my friend from fine arts background from jaipur.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
color and religion : Buddhism
After so called internal conflict(?) about joining NID ... this is my first field trip. Assignment was color study of religion . We choose Buddhism for color study and went to Kushalnagar (largest settlement of Tibetans in India,210 km from B'lore) ...
and decided to visit Golden temple to understand their culture.
With my limited understanding of Buddhism I thought they might be using very calm and cool colors e.g light blue, white and dark green .But whole journey was series of contradictions.
We could guess golden temple from 2 km apart ... their vibrant prayer with huge Dhols , 6 feet long saxophones and 500-600 monks singing at a time was pretty scary to enter.
But unlike Hindu temple, their are no barriers about how much inside you go. With a huge golden statue of Buddha and such colorful and vibrant ambiance you tend to forget yourself.( may be thats what they wanna achieve).
The most prominent color concept in Buddhism is that of the rainbow body, which is the highest level of meditative achievement(Nirvana) wherein the body is transformed into pure light.
and decided to visit Golden temple to understand their culture.
With my limited understanding of Buddhism I thought they might be using very calm and cool colors e.g light blue, white and dark green .But whole journey was series of contradictions.
We could guess golden temple from 2 km apart ... their vibrant prayer with huge Dhols , 6 feet long saxophones and 500-600 monks singing at a time was pretty scary to enter.
But unlike Hindu temple, their are no barriers about how much inside you go. With a huge golden statue of Buddha and such colorful and vibrant ambiance you tend to forget yourself.( may be thats what they wanna achieve).
The most prominent color concept in Buddhism is that of the rainbow body, which is the highest level of meditative achievement(Nirvana) wherein the body is transformed into pure light.
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