Jikjisa Temple: Medicine Buddha
Stone
Jikjisa Temple: Medicine Buddha
SOUTH KOREA, North Gyeongsang, Gimcheon; Unified Silla dynasty
The figure is dressed in monastic robes and sits in full lotus position with the right hand opened in varada (wish-granting) mudra and the left hand cupping a medicine bowl. The statue was listed as Treasure No. 319 in 1963.
The sculpture is carved in mid-relief from stone and given an outer border of flames. An intersecting aureole and nimbus with a foliated pattern filling the outer rim are included within the carved area. Weathering has obliterated the statue’s face but the three lines on the neck that signify a great person is still visible.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 493.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Jikjisa Temple: Medicine Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 493.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Jikjisa Temple: Medicine Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:493.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Jikjisa Temple: Medicine Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 493).
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