Word: bodhisattva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founder of the Museum of Modern Art. Nelson was the second son of her five (John D. is older, and Laurence, Winthrop and David are younger), but he was the most responsive to her artistic instincts. As a boy, he conceived a fancy for a 6th century Chinese Bodhisattva and begged her to leave it to him in her will. While a Dartmouth freshman, he tagged along on one of her regular tours of Manhattan galleries and decided that he would start "a tiny bit of collecting" of contemporary art. In his early 20s he toured the world, picking...
...institutions in the Orient appear more mysterious-or more Eastern-to Westerners than the Bank of China. Like a statue of a Bodhisattva, it seems to have many faces and arms. In Saigon, Tokyo, Sydney or New York, the local branches of the bank are controlled by the Chinese Nationalists and report to Taiwan. In Hong Kong, Singapore and London, the bank appears to be the same, but the branches are controlled by the Chinese Communists and answer to Peking. Remembering which is which can become confusing...
...called Lesser Vehicle, is generally more austere and uncompromising; it holds that only monks and nuns have hope of reaching nirvana. Mahayana, the Greater Vehicle, offers hope of enlightenment to laymen as well, and stresses the compassionate concern of the Buddha for humanity. The highest Mahayana ideal is the bodhisattva, or enlightened one, who sacrifices himself for others, and Mahayana mythology contains numerous examples of sacrifices as an act of love as well as a means of liberation. Zen Buddhism, one of the subdivisions of Mahayana, imported by the Japanese from China, emphasizes a combination of prolonged meditation and shock...
Because of Thailand's humid climate, few paintings have survived, but the sculpture is more than sufficient to show the paradoxical versatility of Thailand's artists. The bronze Bodhisattva (see color) is a masterpiece of intricate workmanship; the lithe little dancing figure, who was meant both to protect and entertain Buddha, bends solemnly to the tinkle of music. The Buddhas that the artists made usually hewed to a perfect blending of art and tradition. Buddha's legs, tradition said, were to be like those of a deer, his thighs like the stems of banana trees, his hands...