Udayana Buddha
Gilt copper alloy
Udayana Buddha
CHINA; Qing dynasty
The Ekottara Agama relates that the Buddha ascended to Trayastrimsa Heaven for three months to teach his mother the Dharma. King Udayana of Kausambi missed the Buddha so much, that he commissioned artisans to create an image of the Buddha using sandalwood. Figures of the Buddha wearing a monastic robe with concentrically rippling folds extending down the chest subsequently became known as the Udayana Buddha.
This bronze statue depicts the Buddha standing on a lotus pedestal with the left hand lowered in the varada (wish-granting) mudra and the right hand raised in the abhaya (fearlessness) mudra.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1272.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Udayana Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1272.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Udayana Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1272.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Udayana Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1272).
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