Medicine Buddha
Gilt bronze
Medicine Buddha
KOREA; Unified Silla dynasty
The figure wears a monastic robe that covers both shoulders. The curved pattern of the deep folds and the way the material clings to the legs are in a style inherited from China and date the sculpture to the mid-8th century. The head is characterized by a large mounded usnisa. Sharply defined eyebrows curve to define the prominent nose, beneath which the mouth is set in a solemn expression. The raised left hand holds a medicine bowl and the right falls to hold the edge of the robe that wraps rightly round the arm. The wooden double lotus pedestal is not part of the original design.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 713.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Medicine Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 713.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Medicine Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:713.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Medicine Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 713).
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