In thePopol Vuh,a Quiche' Maya epic, the lords of the Quiche' underworld kill Hun Hunahpu and hung his head from the branch of a gourd tree or calabash tree. No tree of this kind had ever borne gourds until Hun Hunahpu's head was hung in it. While Hun Hunahpu's head hung in the...
While JTTW never openly describes Sun Wukong training in martial arts, it does imply that he learns armed and unarmed combat as a young monkstudying under the Buddho-Daoist Sage Subodhi. Monkey learning boxing in a religious institution is actually a faithful depiction of one aspect of monastic...
While identifying works “by the hand of the master” is very basic to the field of art history, the area of Tibetan art is only beginning to be able to approach these fundamental concerns. Such an inquiry is not without challenges; for instance, more than one person in this tradition ...