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...contemplate his 69 hard-won pieces in stone and bronze were mainly Mr. Loo's friends-museum curators, students, artists. While the learned visitors took their tea, found a corner for sketching, or discussed the possible influence of Buddha upon Christ, the gods of ancient India-Brahma, Siva, Vishnu, Buddha- looked down with old smiles...
Hinduism came before Buddhism in India, and lasted longer. Of the numerous Hindu deities, Brahma is boss, with Vishnu, the preserver, and Siva, god of destruction and creation, making up the Hindu trinity. The Hindu measures his own brevity by a vast time sense: a day in the life of Brahma runs roughly to 4,320,000,000 earthly years. Siva, as Lord of the Dance, is sometimes represented as both masculine and feminine (see cut) and incarnates the pulse of this cosmic life. "In the night of Brahma," says an Indian scholar, "Nature is inert, and cannot dance till...
Paladin of Siva from India's coral strand...
...wife is the goddess of Hindu civilization, the mother is its pivot, and the grandmother is the ruler of the home." Author Yeats-Brown went wherever he could find holy men. dervishes, religious teachers. In Allahabad he watched the parade of 1,000 stark naked followers of Siva...
...week of October, probably Thursday, October 3, or Friday, October 4. This collection will consist largely of Oriental Art, gathered from many countries in order to show the breadth and scope of Dr. Ross's collecting. There will be featured, among other things, a bronze figure of the Dancing Siva, early Chinese bronzes, Chinese paintings, a rare Japanese screen showing paintings of early poets, Oriental textiles and pottery, and Persian illuminations and miniatures...