Some Images and Traces of Mahāyāna Buddhism in Chittagong

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• “The identification of the images, well-known as they are, needs no remarks.”

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• “The lack of liveliness in the facial and physiognomical expressions, the static poses, the rigidity in the treatment of the curls of hair ard the folds of the sanghdt?, in short, a dullness noticeable in the general treatmnent leaves no douht in our minds that they are prodactions of local artists with poor accom- plishments aiming to produce replicas of what they saw”

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• “They also prove that the donors could not have belonged to the School of Buddhism prevailing at present at Chittagong; hence the seven images of Buddha are, in fact, relics of the old school of Buddhism followed by at least some families in Chittagong.”

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