CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Subject: Coping Stone with Railing Pillars. The pillars are adorned with a stupa at the top and a faceted pillar supporting a triratna (the tri-pronged motif symbolizing the Buddha, dharma, and the sangha) that in turn supports a wheel.

Subject: Lion capital, lion detail

Subject: Lion capital, detail of abacus showing an elephant

Subject: Lion capital, detail of abacus showing a horse

Subject: Lion capital, detail of abacus showing a bull

Subject: Lion capital. The capital shows four addorsed lions mounted on a round abacus. On the abacus are four animals-a bull, a lion, an elephant, and a galloping horse–separated from one another by a wheel, a reference to the Buddha’s turning of the Wheel of the Law. A large stone wheel’s rim is supported on the backs of the four addorsed lions. The wheels are also a symbol of the ideal universal monarch, the chakravartin used by Ashoka, who sought to project himself as a chakravartin.

Subject: Lion capital, detail of abacus showing the wheel

Subject: Lion capital, detail of abacus showing a lion

Subject: Lion capital, detail of abacus showing an elephant and a lion

Subject: Lion capital. The capital shows four addorsed lions mounted on a round abacus. On the abacus are four animals-a bull, a lion, an elephant, and a galloping horse–separated from one another by a wheel, a reference to the Buddha’s turning of the Wheel of the Law. A large stone wheel’s rim is supported on the backs of the four addorsed lions. The wheels are also a symbol of the ideal universal monarch, the chakravartin used by Ashoka, who sought to project himself as a chakravartin.

Subject: Lion capital. The capital shows four addorsed lions mounted on a round abacus. On the abacus are four animals-a bull, a lion, an elephant, and a galloping horse–separated from one another by a wheel, a reference to the Buddha’s turning of the Wheel of the Law. A large stone wheel’s rim is supported on the backs of the four addorsed lions. The wheels are also a symbol of the ideal universal monarch, the chakravartin used by Ashoka, who sought to project himself as a chakravartin.

Subject: Detail of the Samadhi Sthal (cremation site)

Subject: Samadhi Sthal (cremation site) of Shasan Rashmi Mahastaveer, patron of the temple

Subject: Dedicatory plaque to Shasan Rashmi Mahastaveer, patron of the temple

Subject: Information painted about the Enormous Buddha

Subject: View of the back of the Enormous Buddha standing in Wat Thai

Subject: Gateway modeled after Sanchi's gateways, detail showing Ashoka's pillar

Subject: Gateway modeled after Sanchi's gateways, detail showing the Dhamek Stupa

Subject: Gateway modeled after Sanchi's gateways, detail

Subject: Gateway modeled after Sanchi's gateways, detail showing the Mahabodhi temple

Subject: Gateway modeled after Sanchi's gateways, detail

Subject: Gateway modeled after Sanchi's gateways, detail

Subject: Gateway modeled after Sanchi's gateways, detail showing a yakshi beneath a mango tree

Subject: Detail, Replica of one of Sanchi's gateways