tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18765888.post645096590951500843..comments2023-10-19T07:09:33.346-07:00Comments on Painting Journal: The Meaning of Aracapana for the descendants of Silk Road JewsDiane Widler Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05270246393901276648noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18765888.post-78073764434591452752009-12-23T08:26:00.154-08:002009-12-23T08:26:00.154-08:00Studying the new Tibetan brass figurines of Manjus...Studying the new Tibetan brass figurines of Manjushree (another name for Aracapana) I have changed my thinking on the body language as a universal teaching doll. The fire tipped khadga points to the forehead. First, The face features are now more rounded and less Jewish.<br />Second, the way the wrist is bent in a half down or up possition the point of the sword would be moving between the ear and the temperal lobe forehead. The pointy finger is not at all noticeable, unlike my broken one. So my childhood fantasy of a goddess telling the world how to act is even farther from the reality of the intentions of Aracapana's makers.<br /><br />Time for rethinking my log/story.Diane Widler Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05270246393901276648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18765888.post-46289787653737875532009-12-22T13:17:43.420-08:002009-12-22T13:17:43.420-08:00The general idea is well accepted that trade on th...The general idea is well accepted that trade on the Silk Road brought about exchanges of ideas between many peoples along the route. This fact is supported by experts but was not part of what I remembered from history classes. So to make sure my grandchildren will benefit from my recent learning, I have begun to document the exchange of ideas on the Silk Road.<br />Vincent-Paul Toccoli has documented 1st and 2nd Century Afiganistan standing Buddhist stone statues done in the style of Hellenistic Roman and Greek styles.<br />He writes, "Nations and people are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they weill suffer the fuure consequences of these lies. If they tell themselves stories that free their own truths, they will free histories for future flowers." "Budhhism, The genesis of a fiction, an essay on art and spirituality" Has som very good quotes but most of the esay is lost in the translation from French. www.a-nous-dieu-toccoli.com/publication/2005/the-buddha-revised.pdfDiane Widler Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05270246393901276648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18765888.post-67389614358339477912009-12-19T08:36:52.812-08:002009-12-19T08:36:52.812-08:00A very interesting story and an illustration of a ...A very interesting story and an illustration of a broad swathe of history. Good jobRain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18765888.post-8545961297235004452009-12-18T18:40:53.674-08:002009-12-18T18:40:53.674-08:00This story of course has some truth even with the...This story of course has some truth even with the devises to make it a story. Having the figure describe himself, is stronger than a dry basic design analysis.Diane Widler Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05270246393901276648noreply@blogger.com