Buddhistic Approach to Beauty
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Beauty, which is one of the three ultimate values, besides truth and goodness, has always charmed and challenged the spirit of man. From the immemorial time, human being tried to investigate the nature of beauty. This resulted in the variation of the concept of beauty. Sometimes the concept of beauty is confined to objective qualities, sometimes to subjective faculties and sometimes to the synthesis of both. Thus, it seems that there is no absolute view about the concept of beauty. However, almost all aesthetic theories accept that beauty is not an immediate property of things; it involves a relation to the mind. In other words, it is a pleasant feeling and whatever creates this kind of feeling contains beauty. According to Buddhism, beauty is neither a fixed concept nor a quality which can exist eternally. Beauty can be perceived as a part of phenomena in the interrelated, ever-changing world. That is, from the point of view of aniccatā, beauty is the product of human creativity, and from the point of view of Śūnyatā, beauty is aesthetic impression.
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