Baoding: Sakyamuni and Prabhutaratna Buddhas
Gilt bronze
Baoding: Sakyamuni and Prabhutaratna Buddhas
CHINA, Hebei, Baoding; Sui dynasty
The statue was discovered in Beifu, a town in Baoding in 1957. It depicts two Buddhas seated side by side within a single flame-rimmed mandorla. Both Buddhas raise the right hand in abhaya (fearlessness) mudra and sit with legs crossed on a platform supported on an ornately engraved base with four legs. Two rows of figures line the sides, each consisting of a Bodhisattva, a donor, and a disciple. The disciple on the left is missing, but his presence is suggested by a mortise hole.
The base rests on a larger four-footed support. A censer is secured to its front edge. An inscription dates the statue to 606 and identifies Luo Wen as the donor.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 117.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Baoding: Sakyamuni and Prabhutaratna Buddhas." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 117.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Baoding: Sakyamuni and Prabhutaratna Buddhas" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:117.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Baoding: Sakyamuni and Prabhutaratna Buddhas. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 117).
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