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| The detail of each painting was most amazing, though hard to see in the limited light (and harder still to see in the resulting pictures). Our guide was most knowledgable and explained the meaning of each painting, calling our attention to the expressions and how accurately the painters had portrayed the feelings. We then moved on to cave 12, one of the largest and most beautiful of the caves at Ajanta. |
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| Many of the visitors at the caves wanted to have their picture taken with Lamala and we also took pictures. In some places the plaster and painting had fallen away but often it was replaced with cement in the hope of preserving the rest. |
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| Above is a picture of Lamala with his brother, Wang Ga. The pictures below are from a most impressive mahayana shrine where we also meditated and said mantras, then circumambulating the stupa. In these later caves the artists would carve details which emulated the constuction of a shrine using other materials such as wood, showing the 'joints' and such. Truly impressive. |
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This page was last updated on March 25, 2012.
