Heavenly King
Stone
Heavenly King
CHINA; Northern Song dynasty
The figure wears a lavish headdress decorated with floral and animal motifs. The broad face is set in a furious expression with knitted eyebrows and glaring eyes, creased nose and a downturned mouth. The Heavenly King holds a mace across his stocky body and has a knotted cape draped over his shoulders and knotted at the neck. A full set of armor is worn by this Dharma protector, as he stands astride a pair of yaksas that writhe beneath his booted feet.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 423.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Heavenly King." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 423.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Heavenly King" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:423.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Heavenly King. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 423).
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