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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ajanta Caves' has mentioned 'Buddhist' in the following places:
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| 2nd century BCE to 6th century CE Buddhist cave monuments located in Maharashtra, India | WIKI |
| The Buddhist Caves in Ajanta are approximately 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. | WIKI |
| They are universally regarded as masterpieces of Buddhist religious art. | WIKI |
| The Ajanta Caves constitute ancient monasteries and worship-halls of different Buddhist traditions carved into a 75-metre (246xc2xa0ft) wall of rock. | WIKI |
| [8][9] The caves also present paintings depicting the past lives [10]and rebirths of the Buddha, pictorial tales from Aryasura's Jatakamala, and rock-cut sculptures of Buddhist deities. | WIKI |
| The Ajanta Caves are mentioned in the memoirs of several medieval-era Chinese Buddhist travellers to India and by a Mughal-era official of Akbar era in the early 17th century. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 Caves of the first (Satavahana) period 1.2 Caves of the later, or Vxc4x81kxc4x81xe1xb9xadaka, period 1.3 Re-discovery 2 Sites and monasteries 2.1 Sites 2.2 Monasteries 2.3 Worship halls 3 Paintings 4 Spink's chronology and cave history 4.1 Hindu and Buddhist sponsorship 5 Individual caves 5.1 Cave 1 5.2 Cave 2 5.3 Cave 3 5.4 Cave 4 5.5 Cave 5 5.6 Cave 6 5.7 Cave 7 5.8 Cave 8 5.9 Cave 9 5.10 Cave 10 5.11 Caves 11 5.12 Caves 12 5.13 Cave 13, 14, 15, 15A 5.14 Cave 16 5.15 Cave 17 5.16 Cave 18 5.17 Cave 19 (5th century CE) 5.18 Cave 20 5.19 Caves 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 5.20 Cave 26 (5th century CE) 5.21 Caves 27, 28 and 29 5.22 Cave 30 5.23 Other infrastructure 5.24 Recent excavations 6 Copies of the paintings 7 Significance 7.1 Natives, society and culture in the arts at Ajanta 7.2 Foreigners in the paintings of Ajanta 8 Impact on later painting and other arts 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 11.1 Bibliography 12 External links | WIKI |
| [32] However, the early caves were in use during this dormant period, and Buddhist pilgrims visited the site, according to the records left by Chinese pilgrim Faxian around 400 CE. | WIKI |
| According to Richard Cohen, a description of the caves by 7th-century Chinese traveler Xuanzang and scattered medieval graffiti suggest that the Ajanta Caves were known and probably in use subsequently, but without a stable or steady Buddhist community presence. | WIKI |
| The later caves were each commissioned as a complete unit by a single patron from the local rulers or their court elites, again for merit in Buddhist afterlife beliefs as evidenced by inscriptions such as those in Cave 17. | WIKI |
| All follow the typical form found elsewhere, with high ceilings and a central "nave" leading to the stupa, which is near the back, but allows walking behind it, as walking around stupas was (and remains) a common element of Buddhist worship (pradakshina). | WIKI |
| These are Buddhist legends describing the previous births of the Buddha. | WIKI |
| Buddhist monks praying in front of the Dagoba of Chaitya Cave 26 | WIKI |
| Hindu and Buddhist sponsorship[edit] | WIKI |
| According to Spink and other scholars, the royal Vakataka sponsors of the Ajanta Caves probably worshipped both Hindu and Buddhist gods. | WIKI |
| [34][105] This is evidenced by inscriptions in which these rulers, who are otherwise known as Hindu devotees, made Buddhist dedications to the caves. | WIKI |
| She is a Buddhist deity who originally was the demoness of smallpox and a child eater, who the Buddha converted into a guardian goddess of fertility, easy child birth and one who protects babies. | WIKI |
| There are many art panels narrating Buddhist themes, including those of the Buddha with Nagamuchalinda and Miracle of Sravasti. | WIKI |
| [149] These Buddhas and others on the inner walls of the antechamber are a sculptural depiction of the Miracle of Sravasti in Buddhist theology. | WIKI |
| [160] Above the pillars and also behind the stupa are colorful paintings of the Buddha with Padmapani and Vajrapani next to him, they wear jewels and necklaces, while yogis, citizens and Buddhist bhikshu are shown approaching the Buddha with garlands and offerings, with men wearing dhoti and turbans wrapped around their heads. | WIKI |
| Some of the panels and reliefs inside as well as outside Cave 10 do not make narrative sense, but are related to Buddhist legends. | WIKI |
| He devoted it to the community of monks, with an inscription that expresses his wish, may "the entire world (...) enter that peaceful and noble state free from sorrow and disease" and affirming his devotion to the Buddhist faith: "regarding the sacred law as his only companion, (he was) extremely devoted to the Buddha, the teacher of the world". | WIKI |
| The story depicted is one of the two major versions of the Nanda legend in the Buddhist tradition, one where Nanda wants to lead a sensuous life with the girl he had just wed and the Buddha takes him to heaven and later hell to show the spiritual dangers of a sensual life. | WIKI |
| [209] It made a major departure from the earlier Hinayana tradition, by carving a Buddha into the stupa, a decision that states Spink must have come from "the highest levels" in the 5th-century Mahayana Buddhist establishment because the king and dynasty that built this cave was from the Shaivism Hindu tradition. | WIKI |
| This path is full of carved Buddhist legends, three depictions of the Miracle of Sravasti in the right ambulatory side of the aisle, and seated Buddhas in various mudra. | WIKI |
| The walls, pillars, brackets and the triforium are extensively carved with Buddhist themes. | WIKI |
| Buddhist vihara cell structure at the recently excavated brick monastery at Ajanta Coin of Western Satrap Visvasena (293xe2x80x93304), found in the excavations at the monastery Coin of Byzantine Theodosius II (402xe2x80x93450), found in the excavations at the monastery Terracotta plaque of Hindu goddess Mahishasuramardini found on the site | WIKI |
| [275] In contrast, to the Indian mind and the larger Buddhist community, it is everything that art ought to be, the religious and the secular, the spiritual and the social fused to enlightened perfection. | WIKI |
| It also suggests, states Branacaccio, that the Buddhist monastic world was closely connected with trading guilds and the court culture in this period. | WIKI |
| Many foreigners in this painting are thus shown as listeners to the Buddhist Dharma. | WIKI |