Xiude Temple: Maitreya Bodhisattva
Marble
Xiude Temple: Maitreya Bodhisattva
CHINA, Hebei, Baoding; Northern Wei dynasty
The statue was excavated from Xiude Temple and depicts Maitreya seated on a lion throne with his ankles crossed. Both hands are damaged but appear to be in a mudra, as are the standing Bodhisattvas on either side. The whole composition is contained within a mandorla, with kneeling figures paying reverence and a seated Buddha image carved in low relief around the rim. Figures making offerings can be seen on the four-legged stand beneath the Buddha.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1389.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Xiude Temple: Maitreya Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1389.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Xiude Temple: Maitreya Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1389.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Xiude Temple: Maitreya Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1389).
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