Saraha
Gilt copper alloy
Saraha
CHINA; Qing dynasty
Saraha was one of the Mahasiddhas of the Indian Vajrayana Buddhism during the early 9th century. This statue depicts him with crescent eyebrows, a long beard and a smiling mouth. The figure has a high topknot with the skull ornament of the Vajrayana practitioner. Naked but for a stole and belted loincloth, Saraha is richly adorned with jeweled ornaments and sits with legs crossed upon a square pedestal covered with a deer hide. The figure’s hands are raised in an approximation of the vitarka (teaching) mudra.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 969.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Saraha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 969.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Saraha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:969.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Saraha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 969).
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