Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Manuscript Painting Tradition

Question:

Besides manuscripts, what other form of Buddhist art was produced in the workshops of Nalanda and Vikramsila?

Options:

Stained glass

Sculptures

Frescoes

Bronze images

Correct Answer:

Bronze images

Explanation:

Answer:  Bronze images

Monasteries, such as Nalanda and Vikramsila were great centres of Buddhist learning, and art and numerous manuscripts were illustrated here with Buddhist themes and images of Vajrayana Buddhist deities on palm leaves. These centres also had workshops for casting of bronze images. Students and pilgrims from all over South East Asia came to these monasteries for education and religious instruction, and took back specimens of Pala Buddhist art in the form of bronze and illustrated manuscripts.