Art. XXIII.—The Nativity of the Buddha

Absence of the Buddha Image in Early Buddhist Art : Towards its Signifi - cance in Comparative

Journal of Buddhist Ethics 6 (1999): 219 In 1839, Robert Spence Hardy, Methodist missionary to what was then Ceylon, wrote The British Government and the Idolatry of Ceylon, a polemical pamphlet which accused the ruling British authorities of supporting a religion abhorrent to the mind of God because of its idolatry and Ògross superstitionsÓ (Hardy, 1839, p. 46). He was talking of Buddhism. Tha...

a study on the incarnation of buddha in indian art: symbolic to figurative

the representation of buddha’s image in the art of india, has always been associated with the necessities of life, beliefs and customs of indian people. buddha’s representation, could be divided into two phases: the symbolic phase which sometimes called the first period (2b.c to 1a.d) and the figurative phase which is also called the second period (from 1a.d. on). during his lifetime (563 b.c -...

the aesthetic dimension of howard barkers art: a frankfurtian approach to scenes from an execution and no end of blame

رابطه ی میانِ هنر و شرایطِ اجتماعیِ زایش آن همواره در طولِ تاریخ دغدغه ی ذهنی و دل مشغولیِ اساسیِ منتقدان و نیز هنرمندان بوده است. از آنجا که هنر در قفس آهنیِ زندگیِ اجتماعی محبوس است، گسترش وابستگیِ آن با نهاد ها و اصولِ اجتماعی پیرامون، صرفِ نظر از هم سو بودن و یا غیرِ هم سو بودنِ آن نهاد ها، امری اجتناب ناپذیر به نظر می رسد. با این وجود پدیدار گشتنِ چنین مباحثِ حائز اهمییتی در میان منتقدین، با ظهورِ مکتب ما...

Reflection: Fire and Buddha Image

Declarative Debugging with Buddha

Haskell is a very safe language, particularly because of its type system. However there will always be programs that do the wrong thing. Programmer fallibility, partial or incorrect specifications and typographic errors are but a few of the reasons that make bugs a fact of life. This paper is about the use and implementation of a debugger, called Buddha, which helps Haskell programmers understa...