I was looking forward to this museum visit and was very interested. I was more interested in non-religious art than the religious statues and murals, because of my dislike towards religion. Since I am Chinese and live in Chinatown, I had a clear picture of what Chinese art was like. I have seen statues of Buddha and other gods inside temples, and have seen Chinese paintings and porcelains through store windows along Mott Street. I had also visited the New York Chinese Scholar Garden in Staten Island over the summer and was curious to see the Ming Scholar Garden in the museum. I had never seen the arts of India, except in textbooks and the posters shown in class. There were friendly looking gods and evil looking gods. I wanted to see Ganesh and Hanuman, because they looked like an animal in a human body. They looked very friendly. According to the poster of Shiva, it looked evil and scary. I expected the South East Asian art gallery to disgust me because of that one poster of Shiva. I went to this section at the end of my museum visit. Most of the exhibit required were religious figures of gods. There were many similarities between the gods in arts of India and the arts of China. Almost all of the statues of the gods stood on flowery pedestals. They almost always wore a crown or a holy type of hat. Many gods were decorated with jewelry. Despite the similarities, there were more differences. The portrayal of the gods in India was very different from the portrayal of gods in China. The statues of gods in India were more lively and had more expressions than China. Many of India gods were dancing. While China Standing Bodhisattva stood up straight with small eyes and had an expressionless face, India standing Hanuman had a smile and stood slightly bent forward. Even while China Seated Bodhisattva had a smile on his face, the Bodhisattva was seated in a meditating position. In contrast, India Stella of Four Armed Vishnu was not in meditation.