Theravāda
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Theravāda (Pāli, ‘teaching of the elders (of the order)’; Chin., Shang-tso-pu; Jap., Jōzabu; Korean, Sangjwabu). An early school of Buddhism, derived from
Vibhajjavādins and associated with Sthaviras. As the major survivor of this line, the term became synonymous with Buddhism derived from, and defensive of, the
Pāli canon—in contrast to
Mahāyāna. Theravāda is the form of Buddhism in Śri Lankā and SE Asia. Mahāyāna (‘Large Vehicle’) calls Theravāda ‘
Hīnayāna’, ‘Small Vehicle’, and this term, despite its contemptuous associations, still persists. Theravāda, though strictly inaccurate, is preferable, even though Theravāda was simply one among many early Buddhist schools.
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Fit for a king.(tomb of King Mausolus)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...century A.D., listed the sculptors responsible for the relief figures: Scopas carved the figures on the eastern side; Leochares, the western side; Bryaxis, the northern side; and Timotheus, the southern. The quadriga (four-horse chariot) at...
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Leochares
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Leochares. Greek (probably Athenian) sculptor active in the mid-4th century...evidence, the original of the Apollo Belvedere is sometimes attributed to Leochares, and a seated marble figure of the goddess Demeter (the Demeter of Cnidus...
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Demeter of Cnidus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...throne; originally, perhaps, a figure of her daughter Persephone stood beside her. It is considered one of the finest Greek sculptures to survive from the 4th century and has been attributed to Leochares . See also Aphrodite of Cnidus .
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Apollo Belvedere
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...which it was once displayed). The statue is a copy from the Roman period of a Classical or Hellenistic Greek bronze, and Leochares has been proposed as the sculptor of the lost original. It was often copied or adapted, for example by Bernini in his Apollo...
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Bryaxis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bryaxis , 4th cent. BC, Greek sculptor. With Scopas, Leochares, and Timotheus, he worked on the sculptures of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (c.350 BC). Among other works attributed to...
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