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"There is a movement going towards the representation of, I would say in brackets, gods and goddesses, because the Buddha was in fact a real historical character, so he was not a god.
對于佛陀所代表的曾經有一場運動，我認為這里要說的是神與女神,而佛陀是真實的歷史人物，因此并非神靈。
And so there was this movement two thousand years ago when they started representing these various deities and human wise-men, who had lived a few hundred years before.
約兩千年前，人類開始把幾百年前的智者與各種神靈用人類的形象表現出來。
The first evocation of the Buddha's presence is carved around the circular monuments which are called stupas.
代表佛陀的形象首先被雕刻在舍利塔的四周，
There the Buddha is referred to through the tree below which he sat, where he became awakened, which is the meaning of Buddha in fact-to be awakened.
他曾于其下打坐的那裸菩提樹開悟。
"The worship of footprints are a major element in India still today, they refer to a person who is no more there, but who has left their traces on earth.
而對佛足印的崇拜至今在印度還很興盛，足印代表了曾在世間留下足跡，但如今巳離開人世的人。
This will develop towards even a more elaborated structure, where you can have, in place of the tree, a flaming pillar, which means that out of the Buddha emerges light.
之后的象征手法變得愈加精巧，他們用燃燒的柱子代替菩提樹，火焰象征著佛陀發出的光芒。
So there were symbols which were creeping in to the artistic world, and which really opened the way to the physical image of the Buddha."
這些象征方式逐漸成為藝術手法，導致了其后佛陀具象的誕生。
It's still not entirely clear just why the bodily image appears at this time.
為什么身體具象出現仍然尚不清楚。
