Dajue Temple Great Hero Hall: Sakyamuni Buddha
Jade
Dajue Temple Great Hero Hall: Sakyamuni Buddha
CHINA, Jiangsu, Yixing
The statue of Sakyamuni in the Great Hero Hall was carved in China using Burmese jade and weighs 480 t. It is the world’s largest seated Sakyamuni Buddha statue made from Burmese jade. The figure is seated in full lotus position with hands in dhyana (meditation) mudra. The figure’s monastic robe is opened at the front and reveals the inner robe. The only body adornment is the swastika on the Buddha’s chest. Wooden reliefs of the Western Pure Land and the Eastern Pure Land are on the walls on either side.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 281.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Dajue Temple Great Hero Hall: Sakyamuni Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 281.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Dajue Temple Great Hero Hall: Sakyamuni Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:281.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Dajue Temple Great Hero Hall: Sakyamuni Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 281).
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