represented as living beings: men and women bringing garlands, animals, offering flowers. The lotus is prominent always, for it is the symbol of purity and perfection, growing from the mud, yet undefiled by it, just as Buddha is born into the world but lives above the world. We stray, however, from… … ^{giJfpl3lg{§^^^^^Miip.l§Jji The Greek fret bordering a fabric of mediaeval China. these Buddhistic decorative conceptions, however, so far as China is con- cerned, rides the dragon which is the most terrifying and popular figure in Chinese textile design. Formerly, as we have seen, he obligingly…
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