Vairocana Buddha
Bronze
Vairocana Buddha
CHINA; Ming dynasty
This lavishly enthroned Vairocana is seated on a tall bowl-shaped throne that is embellished with hundreds of miniature Buddhas among overlapping lotus petals. This reinterprets the passage in the Brahmajala Sutra in which Vairocana refers to himself as surrounded by a thousand lotus-borne Sakyamuni Buddhas. The figure is dressed in monastic robes with an almost winged appearance. The figure sits in full lotus position with eyes cast downward, and hands held in the uttarabodhi (supreme enlightenment) mudra.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1285.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Vairocana Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1285.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Vairocana Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1285.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Vairocana Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1285).
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