Ajanta Cave 17: Thousand Buddhas (detail)
Ajanta Cave 17: Thousand Buddhas
INDIA, Maharashtra, Aurangabad
This mural is located on the right wall of the antechamber. There is a total of 1,055 Buddhas covering the entire wall and arranged in an orderly fashion in rows of uniform size. All of the Buddhas have conspicuous usnisa, long earlobes, and round faces. Each figure is encircled by a nimbus and an aureole. Their simple robes are red, brown, and yellow in color. Each Buddha expresses the Dharmacakra (Dharma wheel) mudra and is seated in full lotus position upon a lotus throne.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves A-E, page 52.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Ajanta Cave 17: Thousand Buddhas." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves A-E, vol. 5, 2016, pp. 52.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Peter Johnson, Mankuang, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Ajanta Cave 17: Thousand Buddhas" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves A-E, 5:52.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Johnson, P., Mankuang, Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Ajanta Cave 17: Thousand Buddhas. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves A-E (Vol. 5, pp. 52).
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