Aay Grotto: Medicine Buddha
Aay Grotto: Wall with the Medicine Buddha
Aay Grotto: Medicine Buddha
CHINA, Xinjiang, Aksu
This image of the Medicine Buddha is painted on the right side of the left wall. He holds a transparent medicine bowl in his left hand and a monk’s staff in his right. The Buddha wears long robes with wide sleeves and the inner robe is tied at the waist with a sash. The cartouches to the left of the Buddha read, “Medicine Buddha, commissioned by the pious Buddhist, Kou Tingjun” and “respectfully recorded by Yang Ai, a pious Buddhist and ambassador.” This is one of the better preserved paintings of the Medicine Buddha found within the Kuchean caves.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves A-E, page 3.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Aay Grotto: Medicine Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves A-E, vol. 5, 2016, pp. 3.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Peter Johnson, Mankuang, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Aay Grotto: Medicine Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves A-E, 5:3.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Johnson, P., Mankuang, Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Aay Grotto: Medicine Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves A-E (Vol. 5, pp. 3).
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