Taxila: Maitreya Bodhisattva
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Taxila: Maitreya Bodhisattva
PAKISTAN, Punjab, Taxila
There is little difference between Gandharan statues of Prince Siddhartha as a Bodhisattva, and Maitreya Bodhisattva. The vase held in the left hand of this figure is all that identifies this statue as Maitreya.
The figure has long hair that falls over the shoulders and is pulled through a restraining band to form a topknot. He is mustached and has an urna between the eyebrows. The robust body is adorned with jewelry and a stole is wrapped around the left shoulder to fall across the skirt below and drape over the right forearm. Enough of the lower body remains to see that the right knee is bent and advanced in front of the left knee.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1198.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Taxila: Maitreya Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1198.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Taxila: Maitreya Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1198.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Taxila: Maitreya Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1198).
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