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The Story of Sudhana, Gallery 2, 97-128

Posted on July 14, 2023June 25, 2024 by Dharma Documentaries
The story of Sudhana and his meeting with 52 teachers as told at Borobudur, Part Four.

The Story of Sudhana, Gallery 2, 97-128

The Gaṇḍavyūha is one of the great Buddhist stories telling of the pilgrimage of the young man Sudhana who wants to find out how Bodhisattvas live and behave, and his multiple encounters with 52 teachers during his quest.

This story is amongst those illustrated at Borobudur, and indeed it has by far the largest amount of reliefs dedicated to it of any story on the monument, there being 460 reliefs. This is the 4th of 9 videos which show the reliefs at Borobudur and tell the story of Sudhana’s journey.

The videos, each around one hour long, are a remarkable feat of dedicated story-telling by Walid Haddad, some of whose other videos I have featured on this site before, and I will show the whole collection over the next couple of months. The story is a great story, the reliefs are some of the finest examples of Buddhist art, and their retelling in these videos is a great accomplishment.

In the last section of Gallery Two we follow Sudhana as he meets with the rest of the good friends, and then comes to Maitreya’s Palace, which will prepare him for the visions he will get inside the Palace which is depicted on Gallery Three.

 

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