Buddha & Asian antiques blog » 'Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art'

You see them prostrating themselves along roads in Tibet, circumambulating stupas in Burma, crowding temples from Nepal to Sri Lanka, Thailand to Japan. They don't wear the same clothes, don't speak the same language, don't always follow the same doctrinesâ€"but ... Chief among these are the Buddha's achieving enlightenment at Bodh Gayaâ€"represented through sculptures from India, Tibet and Myanmarâ€"and his first sermon at Sarnath, illustrated by a sixth-century Gupta bronze. ...