Nagaraja Buddha
Gilt copper alloy
Nagaraja Buddha
CHINA; Ming dynasty
Also known as Nageshvararaja (the lord with power over nagas), Nagaraja is one of the Thirty-Five Buddhas. The Buddha is depicted wearing simple monastic robes and sitting in full lotus position with his hands in Dharmacakra (Dharma wheel) mudra. He is overshadowed by seven nagas, whose heads rise on intertwined bodies on both sides of the Buddha.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 736.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Nagaraja Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 736.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Nagaraja Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:736.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Nagaraja Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 736).
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