Xiude Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
Marble
Xiude Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
CHINA, Hebei, Baoding; Northern Wei dynasty
The sculpture was excavated from Xiude Temple. The inscription on the back of the statue’s base dates the work to 529 and names Wang Qitong as the donor.
The standing Bodhisattva wears a floral headdress and stoles that loop down the body to fall below the inverted lotus pedestal. A circular lotus nimbus intersects with an aureole behind the figure, and both are contained within a flame patterned mandorla.
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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