- Planned cities

- Running water & sewers

- Pools, possible ritual

- Baked brick

- Curvaceous

- All known examples are minature

- Hints at early Hinduism

- Relaxed belly

- Ceramic, soapstone, clay

- No direct portrayal for 400 years after his death. Only symbolized through footprints, lotus, throne, wheel, lion

- When portrayed as a human, in a triangular pose seated

- Long ears

- Dressed as a monk in a robe

- Circular symbolism

- Temple is for relics and a symbolic home for the spirits

- Based off of the Mandala

- Yakshi (M) and Yaksha (F) spirit images

- Almost all religious

- Curvaceous, sensuous

- Much symbolism

- Mudras

- Temple is the house of god

- Based on the Mandala

- Elaborately decorated and symbolic

- Images of god are inhabited by it's spirit

- Conservative style

- Prominent overhanging roof

- Usually wood resulting in few remains

- Use of the Pagoda (Buddhist temple)

- Silk or paper

- Focus of the grand landscapes and small size of humans

- Atmospheric perspective, multiple perspectives

- Giant earth mound

- Statues of soldiers and animals

- Personal items

- Jade burial suit

- Emphasis on temples

- Stone and brick

- May have statues attached

- Pyramid design: shallow, stepped, temple on top

- Pyramid may have burial

- Emphasis on temples and palaces, usually limestone

- Pyramids may have burials

- Pyramid design: steep, stepped, temple on top