Abstract
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York houses a splendid collection of Buddhist art from Gandhara. The collection also includes a three sided miniature relief to which the museum records refer to as “Three-Sided Section of a Portable Shrine with Scenes from the life of the Buddha”. This object is very interesting not only for its tiny size but equally important for the method of depicting life story of the Buddha. The present research is a study of the narrative depiction of this interesting piece of art. Scope of the investigation has been extended by making comparative analysis of the pictorial representation with general sculptures and reliefs from Gandhara. At the end, a hypothesis has been presented about the date and probable function of the miniature portable object among followers of the Buddhism.
Muhammad Hameed. (2016) Miniature Relief From The Collection Of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York: A Comparative Study Of Its Iconography And Some New Thoughts About Its Identification, Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 29, Issue 2.
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