Toshodaiji Temple: Six-Armed Bodhisattva
Nutmeg wood
Toshodaiji Temple: Six-Armed Bodhisattva
JAPAN, Nara; Nara period
The statue was carved from nutmeg wood towards the end of the 8th century and is listed as an Important Cultural Property in Japan. It is has been greatly damaged but originally incorporated a third eye and six arms.
The Bodhisattva’s hair is arranged about a high framework and held in place by a fillet. The neck has the three lines of a great person. The figure’s wide shoulders are wrapped in stoles that fall to the belted skirt, while a deerskin stole fastens in a knot across the chest.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1245.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Toshodaiji Temple: Six-Armed Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1245.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Toshodaiji Temple: Six-Armed Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1245.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Toshodaiji Temple: Six-Armed Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1245).
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