Xinglongjing Temple Rear Hall: Cundi
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Xinglongjing Temple Rear Hall: Cundi
TAIWAN, Kaohsiung; Qing dynasty
The statue was originally enshrined in Guanyinting Temple in Guishan, Taoyuan. It was relocated to Kaohsiung in 1943 along with the temple, which was renamed Xinglongjing. The statue was subsequently placed in the new temple’s rear hall. The statue itself is more than 300 years old.
The Eighteen-Armed Cundi wears a five-Buddha crown and sits cross-legged on a lotus throne. The main pair of hands are in a mudra. Two more hands hold up a pair of swords above the head, while the other hands hold attributes such as an alms bowl, vase, bow, gem, sutra scroll, fruit, arrow, lotus flower, and scepter. The statue was most likely sculpted after the Cundi Dharani Sutra or the Cundi Liturgy but the objects in the hands differ from those specified in the text.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1381.
Cite this article:
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Lovelock, Yann and Chou, Yuan and Huntington, Susan and Edson, Gary and Neather, Robert,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z},
pages = 1381,
title = {{Xinglongjing Temple Rear Hall: Cundi}},
volume = 13,
year = {2016}}