Liurong Temple Sixth Patriarch Hall: Master Huineng
Copper alloy
Liurong Temple Sixth Patriarch Hall: Master Huineng
CHINA, Guangdong, Guangzhou; Northern Song dynasty
The sculpture is a realistic likeness of Master Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of the Chan school. Huineng once stayed at Liurong Temple for a while. The statue is in a hall specially dedicated to the master, where he sits straight backed on a curved teaching chair, cross-legged in meditation. The elderly face and body are emaciated and the bones show through the flesh. The wide sleeved robe and cross-collared undergarment are richly embroidered with floral borders and the robe is secured by a round ornamental buckle below the left shoulder.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 611.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Liurong Temple Sixth Patriarch Hall: Master Huineng." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 611.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Liurong Temple Sixth Patriarch Hall: Master Huineng" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:611.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Liurong Temple Sixth Patriarch Hall: Master Huineng. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 611).
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