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Buddhas and Boddhisattvas

Gandhāran Buddha and Bodhisattva statues are among the earliest anthropomorphic images of the Buddha; this project undertakes an art-historical analysis of their iconography to clarify the doctrinal and ritual meanings embedded in these forms. Working through Glycerine's IIIF-native annotation environment, the project layers close visual analysis directly onto high-resolution images, allowing iconographic features to be tagged, compared and…