Sahri Bahlol: Life of the Buddha - King Udayana and the Statue of the Buddha
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Sahri Bahlol: Life of the Buddha - King Udayana and the Statue of the Buddha
PAKISTAN, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar
When the Buddha ascended to Trayastrimsa Heaven to teach his mother the Dharma, King Udayana of Kausambi ordered his craftsmen to sculpt a life-sized statue of the Buddha from a piece of sandalwood. The king is presenting the Buddha with a smaller version of the statue in this variation of the story. The narrative is framed by two squared Corinthian columns and features the Buddha at the center with hands in a variation of the Dharmacakra (Dharma wheel) mudra. The Buddha is accompanied by seated monks on the right. King Udayana is carrying the statue on the left with courtiers behind him. Heavenly beings in the background scatter flowers.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 890.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Sahri Bahlol: Life of the Buddha - King Udayana and the Statue of the Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 890.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Sahri Bahlol: Life of the Buddha - King Udayana and the Statue of the Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:890.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Sahri Bahlol: Life of the Buddha - King Udayana and the Statue of the Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 890).
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