Maitreya Bodhisattva
Gilt bronze
Maitreya Bodhisattva
CHINA; Yuan dynasty
Maitreya sits with legs pendent on a Sumeru throne, the hands are in Dharmacakra (Dharma wheel) mudra. A five-leaf crown surrounds hair that builds to a pagoda ornament at its apex. Ribbons flutter from sidepieces and three different sets of necklaces hang over the chest. Stoles wind down the arms to a skirt with a decorated hem. The skirt is overhung with beaded pendants and the tie of a belt. The Bodhisattva’s rectangular throne has fretted legs and rests on a Sumeru base ornamented with lotus petals. The base has a semicircular overhang on which the feet rest.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 659.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Maitreya Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 659.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Maitreya Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:659.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Maitreya Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 659).
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