Life of the Buddha
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Life of the Buddha
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The relief depicts scenes from the Life of the Buddha before his Great Departure. Each scene is divided by a square adaptation of the Corinthian column and the fragment is broken.
The section on the left depicts Palace Life. Prince Siddhartha and his wife, Princess Yasodhara, are attended by a musician and a lady-in-waiting. The episode of the Four Encounters is on the right side. The prince rides into the city on a horse, accompanied by a servant. A sick man with a huge abdomen is seen slumped on the ground. Behind the man is another figure, probably a relative, attending the recumbent figure. Beyond this, moving to the right, is another depiction of the prince on a horse but, since the rest of the panel is broken, the other encounters remain incomplete.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 582.
Cite this article:
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Lovelock, Yann and Chou, Yuan and Huntington, Susan and Edson, Gary and Neather, Robert,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M},
pages = 582,
title = {{Life of the Buddha}},
volume = 11,
year = {2016}}