Hindu Art in The Traditional Doctrine of Sacred Art

Yıl 2015, Cilt: 2 Sayı: 2, 275 - 284, 30.06.2015

Muharrem Hafız

Öz

Every sacred art for the traditionalist school (including the names as Renè Guènon,
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt and Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
is founded on a deep metaphysical background. According to the traditional doctrine of
sacred art, this world is only an image/copy of a spiritual pattern, and the very existence
of this world is derived from its celestial archetypes. Sacred art is the visible and audible
form of the Invisible as it helps man to find his own center and kernel of which the nature
is to love God. In this presentation, the metaphysical aspects of the doctrine of sacred art
in general will be examined and then the angelic origin of art formulated explicitly by the
Hindu tradition with regard to the traditionalist school. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

Hinduism, Hindu art, Tradition, Traditionalist school

Kaynakça

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