Buddhist Cosmic Art

Harvard FAS

Long before the modern internet, Buddhism imagined a cosmic network: Indra’s Net—an infinite canopy of interconnected jewels, each reflecting all others in a continuous, endless loop. In this vision of reality, the boundaries between the “one” and the “many” dissolve. Physical scale ceases to matter: a single particle of dust can contain a trillionfold world, and infinity can unfold within a single thought-instant.This course explores how this cosmos was visualized and staged through art and…