Prince Siddhartha at Birth
Gilt bronze
Prince Siddhartha at Birth
CHINA; Qing dynasty
It is recorded that after the birth of Prince Siddhartha, he took seven steps in each of the four directions, and with each step a lotus blossomed. Then, pointing to the sky above and the earth beneath, he proclaimed, “I am the greatest of all beings. This is my last birth and hereafter I will not be born again.”
In this statue Prince Siddhartha has a round, childlike face with long earlobes and stands sturdily upon a double lotus pedestal. The sculpture depicts him wearing a traditional Chinese bellyband with floral decorations.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 841.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Prince Siddhartha at Birth." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 841.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Prince Siddhartha at Birth" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:841.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Prince Siddhartha at Birth. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 841).
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