Seated Buddha
Dry lacquer
Seated Buddha
Seated Buddha (detail)
Seated Buddha
CHINA; Tang dynasty
The Buddha has a rounded usnisa and hollowed earlobes. The face has a broad forehead which is divided by deep eyebrows. The Buddha sits cross-legged, absorbed in meditation. He wears a monastic robe across the left shoulder that falls over the legs in realistically depicted folds. Although the hands are missing, the posture of the arms suggests that they may have formed the dhyana (meditation) mudra. This figure bears traces of gilt and pigment.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 1009.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Seated Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 1009.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Seated Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:1009.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Seated Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 1009).
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