Palcho Monastery: Maitreya Buddha
Gilt copper alloy
Palcho Monastery: Maitreya Buddha
CHINA, Tibet, Gyantse
This 15th century sculpture of the future Buddha is flanked on either side by attendant Bodhisattvas with inclined heads. Maitreya is depicted wearing a seven-leaf crown inlaid with gems and decorated with the image of his tutelary Buddha. Elongated earlobes descend to the Buddha’s shoulders, and behind his head is an arched nimbus. The chest is lavishly and exquisitely adorned with a heavy gold necklace inlaid with precious stones. The five bowls before Maitreya in the photo are torma offerings of barley flour and clarified butter mounted on a ritual lance.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 789.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Palcho Monastery: Maitreya Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 789.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Palcho Monastery: Maitreya Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:789.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Palcho Monastery: Maitreya Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 789).
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