Norbugang Monastery: Four-Headed Vairocana
Gilt copper alloy
Norbugang Monastery: Four-Headed Vairocana
BHUTAN, Punakha
Vairocana’s four heads face the four directions and are so closely united that they share only four earrings between them. A jeweled crown is worn on the heads, surrounding piled hair tipped with a golden ornament. The upper garment is shaped like a cape and held in place by a pendant flower ornament, while the skirt is secured by a complex beaded belt. The slim figure sits in full lotus position with hands in dhyana (meditation) mudra on a double lotus throne.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 767.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Norbugang Monastery: Four-Headed Vairocana." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 767.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Norbugang Monastery: Four-Headed Vairocana" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:767.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Norbugang Monastery: Four-Headed Vairocana. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 767).
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