Rinzai Zen Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
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Rinzai Zen Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
Rinzai Zen Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
TAIWAN, Taipei
The statue is located halfway up the mountain behind the temple’s Great Hero Hall. The base on which the figure rests is actually a gravestone. An inscription names the statue as Avalokitesvara and states that it was placed there in 1929 to commemorate the third anniversary of the person’s death.
The Bodhisattva is seated in the posture of royal ease on a large lotus flower supported on an inverted lotus base. The right elbow rests on the raised knee, with one hand supporting the chin as if in contemplation. There is a mixture of styles here, mainly taking their inspiration from the Water-Moon Avalokitesvara and Cintamanicakra Avalokitesvara.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 880.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Rinzai Zen Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 880.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Rinzai Zen Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:880.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Rinzai Zen Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 880).
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