Xiude Temple: Pair of Standing Bodhisattvas
Marble
Xiude Temple: Pair of Standing Bodhisattvas
CHINA, Hebei, Baoding; Northern Qi dynasty
The composition was excavated from the Xiude Temple site. The two crowned Bodhisattvas stand symmetrically on round lotus pedestals on a plain base. The front side of the base shows an incense burner flanked by lions and guarded by warriors on the far sides. The top of the mandorla that frames the Bodhisattvas has two apsaras supporting a stupa. An inscription on the back of the sculpture names the widow, Liu Yang, as the donor and dates the work to 562.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1391.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Xiude Temple: Pair of Standing Bodhisattvas." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1391.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Xiude Temple: Pair of Standing Bodhisattvas" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1391.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Xiude Temple: Pair of Standing Bodhisattvas. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1391).
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