Water-Moon Avalokitesvara
Gilt bronze
Water-Moon Avalokitesvara
CHINA; Ming dynasty
Avalokitesvara wears a tall spiral topknot that supports an image of Amitabha Buddha. The Bodhisattva’s face is turned slightly to one side, while the body twists slightly to support the posture with one arm supporting the weight of the body and the other arm resting on one knee. The eyes are closed and a slight smile gives the face a calm composure. The upper body is elaborately decorated with jewelry and a stole is draped over the shoulders to fall buoyantly down the arms. The figure wears a skirt that spreads in graceful folds over the seat on which the figure sits in a variation of the relaxation posture.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1341.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Water-Moon Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1341.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Water-Moon Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1341.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Water-Moon Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1341).
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