Dipamkara Buddha
Gilt copper repoussé
Dipamkara Buddha
NEPAL
Dipamkara Buddha was from the earliest times the most well known Buddha credited with foreseeing Sakyamuni’s future status. He had a following in Nepal.
The figure wears a bejeweled five-leaf crown with fluttering ribbons on both side, and large earrings of the same pattern. The head is proportionately larger than the body, whose only decoration is a collar necklace and a wide stole that is heavily floriated and worn over the left shoulder. A pleated skirt with bands of floral designs covers the lower body. The right hand is in the abhaya (fearlessness) mudra while the left is held out in a reversed karana (warding off evil) mudra.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 294.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Dipamkara Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 294.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Dipamkara Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:294.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Dipamkara Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 294).
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