Potala Palace: Maitreya Bodhisattva
Gilt copper alloy
Potala Palace: Maitreya Bodhisattva
CHINA, Tibet, Lhasa
This 17th century sculpture wears a conical usnisa topped with an ornamental finial surrounded by a five-leaf crown. The figure stands in the tribhanga posture. The hands form mudras and hold long-stalked lotuses that flower at shoulder level. They support a vase on the left and a horizontally pivoted Dharma wheel on the right. The torso is bare but for some jewelry and a thin stole. A waist band is decorated with an intricately-beaded ornament that falls to the thighs and secures the skirt below. The form-fitting skirt sways outward in three waves from clearly delineated limbs.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 824.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Potala Palace: Maitreya Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 824.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Potala Palace: Maitreya Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:824.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Potala Palace: Maitreya Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 824).
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