Gaochang Temple: Standing Buddha
Gilt bronze
Gaochang Temple: Standing Buddha
CHINA, Shandong, Binzhou; Eastern Wei dynasty
The statue was excavated from the ruins of Gaochang Temple in 1981. The Buddha stands on a high, inverted lotus pedestal with hands in the abhaya (fearlessness) and varada (wish-granting) mudras. A monastic robe covering both shoulders is worn and it drapes over the wrist before flaring over the skirt in a style that echoes the shape of the petals on the pedestal. The rimmed and intersecting aureole and nimbus are enclosed within a blazing mandorla behind the figure.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 372.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Gaochang Temple: Standing Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 372.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Gaochang Temple: Standing Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:372.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Gaochang Temple: Standing Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 372).
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