Longhua Temple: Bodhisattva in Contemplation
Gilt bronze
Longhua Temple: Bodhisattva in Contemplation
CHINA, Shandong, Binzhou; Eastern Wei dynasty
Another work excavated from the site of Longhua Temple in 1983, this sculpture depicts a roughly modeled Bodhisattva with a long face and a slender figure wearing an official’s headdress. The robe has thick folds that splay outwards and fold about the wrists, where the right hands is in abhaya (fearlessness) mudra.
The statue is located upon a double four-legged stand with one damaged corner. The worn inscription found on the stand only allows us to identify Zhang Jiaxi as the person who commissioned it.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 616.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Longhua Temple: Bodhisattva in Contemplation." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 616.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Longhua Temple: Bodhisattva in Contemplation" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:616.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Longhua Temple: Bodhisattva in Contemplation. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 616).
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