Human anatomy in ancient Indian sculptures of Gandhara art illustrating the fasting Buddha

• Main Authors: Abrahams, Peter, Mogali, Sreenivasulu Reddy
• Other Authors: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Fasting Buddha; DRNTU::Science::Medicine; Ancient India
• Online Access: http://eurjanat.com/web/paper.php?id=170069sm; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49004; https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107004
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The present article intends to report the surface anatomical features in the three fasting Buddha sculptures and also tries to understand the anatomical knowledge of these ancient Indian sculptors by observing the digital images of the sculptures of the Gandhara art depicting the fasting Buddha. Clo...