Vajrasattva
Copper alloy
Vajrasattva
CAMBODIA; Angkor period
Vajrasattva is crowned and wears cone-shaped earrings as well as a collar necklace. The figure’s face has the regional features of broad nose and thickened lips. The head is tilted upward and the eyes stare straight forward. Vajrasattva, seated in a half lotus position holds a double-pointed vajra in the right hand and a ritual bell in the left hand. The lower body is wrapped in a thick garment that accentuates the slender waist. This garment and the thick armlets are in the early 12th century Angkor style, at a time when Mahayana Buddhism was still influential in the area.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1297.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Vajrasattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1297.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Vajrasattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1297.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Vajrasattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1297).
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