Chengde Eight Outlying Temples: Vaisravana
Gilt copper alloy
Chengde Eight Outlying Temples: Vaisravana
CHINA, Hebei, Chengde; Qing dynasty
Vaisravana, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, guards the northern quadrant and is regarded as the deity of wealth in Tibetan Buddhism. He is symbolically depicted as yellow in color and riding a lion while holding an umbrella, which has now been lost. The crouching lion looks back at the rider. This depiction of the Heavenly King, with his rounded belly and yellow skin, originated from deities of wealth in India. The mongoose spitting jewels is also missing from the figure’s left hand, but his body is adorned with jewelry inlaid with gems. A gilded mandorla surrounds the figure and is lavishly decorated with floral clusters.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 240.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Chengde Eight Outlying Temples: Vaisravana." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 240.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Chengde Eight Outlying Temples: Vaisravana" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:240.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Chengde Eight Outlying Temples: Vaisravana. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 240).
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