Maitreya Buddha
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Maitreya Buddha (back)
Maitreya Buddha
CHINA; Northern Wei dynasty
Maitreya is depicted with hands most likely in the Dharmacakra (Dharma wheel) mudra and seated on a bench with ankles crossed. He wears a thick roughly carved monastic robe with folds that covers both shoulders. The facial features are simplistic and marked by very thick eyebrows and lower lip. The mandorla is filled with abstract patterns and encloses a lotus nimbus. There are pictorial carvings dated to the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) that illustrate the Life of the Buddha and Jataka tales on the reverse of the nimbus.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 666.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Maitreya Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 666.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Maitreya Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:666.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Maitreya Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 666).
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