Java: Head of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
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Java: Head of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
INDONESIA, Central Java
This sculpture was unearthed from Central Java. The figure wears a circlet fronted by Amitabha Buddha, which identifies the figure as Avalokitesvara. The hair is braided into a tall topknot that is shaped like a rounded stupa with a finial, on which another seated Buddha is set into a niche. The face has a wide forehead, broad cheeks, expressive mouth and eyes cast down, giving it the serene, contemplative expression typically seen in Javanese Buddhist sculptures. The elongated earlobes are hollowed, as if to wear heavy earrings.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 485.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Java: Head of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 485.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Java: Head of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:485.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Java: Head of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 485).
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