Kongwangshan: Stele
Marble
Kongwangshan: Stele
CHINA, Jiangsu, Lianyungang; Eastern Wei dynasty
The sculpture was discovered on Kongwangshan in 1961. Bas-reliefs on each of the stele’s four sides include a seated Buddha and three Bodhisattvas. At the bottom is a platform resting on a double-petaled lotus pedestal. The Buddha figure wears monastic robes with wide sleeves that conceal the hands. An almost rectangular aureole and petal shaped nimbus is incorporated into a plain mandorla. The crowned Bodhisattvas on the other stele faces wear monastic robes and are distinguished by their mudras. On the base is an inscription dating the work to 543.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 558.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Kongwangshan: Stele." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 558.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Kongwangshan: Stele" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:558.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Kongwangshan: Stele. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 558).
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