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| A Buddhist holy person who has achieved enlightenment and nirvana by suppression of all desire for earthly things. |
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| An artwork constructed from already existing objects |
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| In ancient China, jade disks carved as ritual objects for burial with the dead. They were often decorated with piercework carving extending entirely through the object. |
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| The weaving together of threads of different colors. |
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| Greek, “beautiful writing.” Handwriting or penmanship, especially elegant writing as a decorative art. |
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| A rule, for example, of proportion. The ancient Greeks considered beauty to be a matter of “correct” proportion and sought a canon of proportion, for the human figure and for buildings. |
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| A Chinese-Korean pottery glaze, fired in an oxygen-deprived kiln to a characteristic gray-green or pale blue color. |
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| Chan/Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism. The word "zen" is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word "Chan." |
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| Pottery made of clay that is fired at low temperatures and is slightly porous. |
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| The lower part of a roof that overhangs the wall. |
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| The technique of sewing threads onto a finished ground to form contrasting designs |
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| (990 CE - 1020 CE), a Chinese painter of the Song Dynasty (960 CE - 1279 CE). His best known work is the piece Travelers amd Mountain and Streams. |
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| (344 CE - 406 CE) A talented Chinese painter. His style name was "Changkang." Many of the most famous pieces attributed to him are hand painted silk scrolls. He was also a talented poet and calligrapher. |
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| In ancient China, covered vessels, often in animal forms, holding wine, water, grain, or meat for sacrificial rites. |
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| In Asian art, a horizontal painted scroll that is unrolled to the left and often used to present illustrated religious texts or landscapes. |
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| In ancient Chinese painting, thin brush lines suggesting tensile strength |
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| A varnishlike substance made from the sap of the Asiatic sumac, used to decorate wood and other organic materials. Often colored with mineral pigments, lacquer cures to great hardness and has a lustrous surface |
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| (1140 CE - 1220 CE) was a Chinese artist. He is known for developing the "xie yi" or "sketch painting" style. |
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| (1160-60 - CE - 1225 CE) A Chinese painter of the Song Dynasty. Along with Xia Gui, his art forms the beginnings of the so-called Ma-Xia school of painting. |
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| A Korean vase similar to the Chinese meiping. |
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| A Chinese vase of a highshouldered shape; the sgrafitto technique was used in decorating such vases. |
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| A Chinese tower, usually associated with a Buddhist temple, having a multiplicity of winged eaves; thought to be derived from the Indian stupa |
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| Extremely fine, hard, white ceramic. Unlike stoneware, porcelain is made from a fine white clay called kaolin mixed with ground petuntse, a type of feldspar. True porcelain is translucent and rings when struck. |
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| A Chinese ceramic technique in which the design is incised through a colored slip. |
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| Pottery fired at high temperatures to produce a stonelike hardness and density. |
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| In Buddhism, an account of a sermon by or a dialogue involving the Buddha. A scriptural account of the Buddha. See also jataka. |
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| Hard-baked clay, used for sculpture and as a building material. It may be glazed or painted. |
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| A gift of gratitude to a deity. |
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| In Chinese cosmology, the principle of active masculine energy, which permeates the universe in varying proportions with yin, the principle of passive feminine energy |
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| Painted Arhats Giving Alms to Beggars in 1184 as part of a series of 100 scrolls produced at the southern coastal city of Ningbo for an abbot |
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