Zhenguo Temple Ten Thousand Buddha Hall: Mahakasyapa (right side)
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Zhenguo Temple Ten Thousand Buddha Hall: Ananda (left side)
Zhenguo Temple Ten Thousand Buddha Hall: Mahakasyapa and Ananda
CHINA, Shanxi, Jinzhong; Northern Han Kingdom
The central Buddha is flanked by two of his chief disciples, Mahakasyapa and Ananda. The former is usually depicted, as an older male with a gaunt, ascetic look. The figure wears a field-pattern monastic robe over an inner robe. One end covers the right shoulder and hangs down the wrinkled arms but is draped over the left forearm in a natural manner. The hands are clasped, unusually, in the uttarabodhi (supreme enlightenment) mudra. Ananda is presented as a younger male who stands with hands folded before him. The figure has a fuller, more healthy body and is dressed in a cross-collared robe.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1442.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Zhenguo Temple Ten Thousand Buddha Hall: Mahakasyapa and Ananda." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1442.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Zhenguo Temple Ten Thousand Buddha Hall: Mahakasyapa and Ananda" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1442.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Zhenguo Temple Ten Thousand Buddha Hall: Mahakasyapa and Ananda. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1442).
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