Longmen Grottoes: Head of a Buddha
Stone
Longmen Grottoes: Head of a Buddha
CHINA, Henan, Luoyang; Tang dynasty
This head is said to be from Longmen Grotto 403 and is now kept at the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Japan. The sculpture dates to the Early Tang period (618–712). The Buddha has a large usnisa and whorled hair that is parted in the middle. The broad face looks calmly forward and the lips are expressively carved. A sculpted urna once inserted at the center of the forehead, is no longer present.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves R-L, page 722.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Longmen Grottoes: Head of a Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves R-L, vol. 6, 2016, pp. 722.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Peter Johnson, Mankuang, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Longmen Grottoes: Head of a Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves R-L, 6:722.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Johnson, P., Mankuang, Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Longmen Grottoes: Head of a Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves R-L (Vol. 6, pp. 722).
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