THE THIRTEEN Tibetan tankas, or banners, presented here attest, in their telescopic scenes from twenty-nine of the Buddha's many exist- ences before he became the Great Being, the living quality of a vast and mighty religious art. That art arose, some five hundred years before Christ, out of the challenging teaching of the Perfectly Enlightened One, Gautama, the Buddha, taken in and given out, century after cen- tury, in recurring waves of heart-lifting hopefulness. As it spread out from the Master's native India, it carried the glorification of his earthly path throughout the subtle complexity of nations comprising Central Asia, until, some five hundred years after Christ, it brought its uni- verse-embracing directive power to Tibet. Amid ever multiplying influences, this religious art had undergone a thousand years of intensification and of extended "speakingness" (brjod-pa)--for that was its prime function--before it reached Tibet, its new, high, and hard Himalayan home. There it came into its own anew. It was as if Tibet had been preparing itself slowly, surely, over the years, to develop a special genius in the blending of art and religion.
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