The Ajanta Mountain Caves’ Hindu/Buddhist Tantric Dancers and W.B. Yeats’s Later Eastern-focused Concept of Unity of Being
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Yeats studied the Ajanta Caves art in the context of his parallel explorations into aspects of Hindu and Buddhist religion and philosophy, which is crucial to understand his later perception of the eastern dancer symbolism and his non-ascetic and non-dualistic perception of the mural symbolism of the Ajanta Caves meditative art. This study helps understand in a new way Yeats’s eastern-focused concept of Unity of Being which the dancer embodies, as explored in A Vision Papers and Per Amica Silentia Luna (1916), and even more explicitly, in his revised edition of A Vision (1937). The Ajanta Caves dancer resides before the “gate of abdication,” inviting any admirer of this art to meditate upon and experience an eastern-focused, but also universal, concept of Unity of Being, which has by the mid ’20s become for Yeats a “Zen” act of “contemplation” where all “becomes through rhythm one single act of the mind,” making the eastern dancer its most exemplary expression.
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Yeats studied the Ajanta Caves art in the context of his parallel explorations into aspects of Hindu and Buddhist religion and philosophy, which is crucial to understand his later perception of the eastern dancer symbolism and his non-ascetic and non-dualistic perception of the mural symbolism of the Ajanta Caves meditative art. This study helps understand in a new way Yeats’s eastern-focused concept of Unity of Being which the dancer embodies, as explored in A Vision Papers and Per Amica Silentia Luna (1916), and even more explicitly, in his revised edition of A Vision (1937). The Ajanta Caves dancer resides before the “gate of abdication,” inviting any admirer of this art to meditate upon and experience an eastern-focused, but also universal, concept of Unity of Being, which has by the mid ’20s become for Yeats a “Zen” act of “contemplation” where all “becomes through rhythm one single act of the mind,” making the eastern dancer its most exemplary expression.
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