Pasho Monastery: Vairocana Buddha
Gilt copper alloy
Pasho Monastery: Vairocana Buddha
CHINA, Tibet, Qamdo
This sculpture of a standing Vairocana is in Kashmiri style. The figure wears a five-leaf, ribboned crown designed with crossed discs and inlaid with turquoise. The upper body bare except for a variety of jewelry, is encircled by a buoyant flower garland that falls to the lower legs. Broad shoulders narrow to a slim waist, where a short and decorative lower robe is secured by a tasseled belt. The hands are held in this Buddha’s characteristic bodhyangi (wisdom fist) mudra as the figure stands with a slight displacement of the right hip and an advanced left foot.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 806.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Pasho Monastery: Vairocana Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 806.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Pasho Monastery: Vairocana Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:806.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Pasho Monastery: Vairocana Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 806).
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