Taxila: Sakra’s Cave
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Taxila: Sakra’s Cave
PAKISTAN, Punjab, Taxila
A balustrade divides the pictorial space. The Buddha sits in meditation inside a niche-like cave in the lower half. The wilderness location of the cave is indicated by two wild boars rooting among rocks in the foreground. The two figures standing in reverential attitudes at the cave’s entrance are Brahma and Sakra, who have come to ask for instruction in the Dharma. Heavenly beings and deities in the upper half of the composition lean over the balustrade that marks the division between the heavenly realm and the earth to scatter flowers.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1199.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Taxila: Sakra’s Cave." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1199.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Taxila: Sakra’s Cave" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1199.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Taxila: Sakra’s Cave. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1199).
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