Xiude Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
Marble
Xiude Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
CHINA, Hebei, Baoding; Northern Wei dynasty
The statue was excavated from Xiude Temple in 1954. The inscription on the back of the rectangular base states it was dedicated by Zhao Caosheng and his wife Zhang Fajiang for their deceased daughter-in-law, in the year 533.
Avalokitesvara wears a high headdress, a long skirt, and silk stoles that hang down over the skirt. The figure stands on the pod of an inverted lotus, which in turn is on a plain square base. The flame patterned mandorla envelops a radiating nimbus.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1385.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Xiude Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1385.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Xiude Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1385.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Xiude Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1385).
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