Pic related is Not(仁王). Japanese demon guardian of Buddha
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Hudson Foster
Xavier Wright
>pic related is not
not what?
Sebastian Thomas
Sorry desu. I meant "Niō".
Jason Barnes
नरसिंह : Narasiṃha.
The demon-lion incarnation of Vishnu
Landon Foster
Chinese 仁王(金剛力士) demon guardian of Buddha.
Landon Price
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Xavier Torres
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Noah Gutierrez
Kamakura sculpture is really great for this stuff.
Lincoln Howard
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Jonathan Ortiz
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Christian Powell
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Andrew Wood
Skeleguns
Xavier Walker
Some images of demons wrestling by Siyah Qalem, c. 1400.
Austin Thomas
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Evan Murphy
Sorry about the watermarks.
Jace Thomas
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Oliver Smith
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Caleb Myers
鍾馗(Zhong Kui) Chinese Demon King.
Thomas Peterson
Japanese version.
Gavin Jones
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Aaron Walker
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Eli Martin
bump
Anthony Watson
Fun fact: this nigga is Hercules
When the indogreeks became Buddhist, they kept using the same Hellenic imagery, and Hercules quickly became depicted as Buddha's bodyguard
This was transmitted all the way to Japan. Eventually becoming a demon, some of his features changed, but the essence is the same
Notice the club
Sebastian Garcia
This sounds like the plot of an animu
>Hercules is given another task
>protect a strange peaceful Indian hermit
>he and Buddha travel the world spreading the good word
>Buddha always gets into trouble
>Herc being Herc just beats the shit out of people to get him out of it
>Buddha seems to be oblivious to it
>Herc at first is pissed off by this sissy weirdo at first
>still bitter about the death of his family
>they grow as characters and begin to like each other
>Herc finds out Buddha was aware of his backdoor shenanigans
>he achieves wisdom and peace and ascends
>Buddha smiles and continues his journey
Just give me the money MadHouse
Jayden Lee
WANT
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Aaron Brooks
However, when you take at look at Tibetan version of 仁王, they become very similar to Hindu deity. The image you see from Japanese 仁王 is actually a highly Sinified version(Chinese version), more resemble to Graeco-Buddhism.
Pic here is Tibetan version.
Ethan Wilson
Another one.
Ayden Watson
That's pretty cool, and yeah it's pretty fascinating how these ideas and motifs were taken around and often jumped borders, having a bigger impact somewhere further away
Aiden Watson
This seems almost antic. Listen!
Lucas Jones
Odin's wild hunt. Though the painting is admittedly not really ancient
Jacob Smith
Interesting how they still use Indian costume