Toling Monastery: Amitabha Buddha
Clay
Toling Monastery: Amitabha Buddha
CHINA, Tibet, Ngari
Although most of the aureole of this colored clay sculpture is damaged, the high usnisa and glazed green eye-lines of the head are visible. The figure is identified as Amitabha Buddha by what looks like the dhyana (meditation) mudra he makes as he sits in full lotus position. Discovered in the Toling Monastery of Tibet, the proportions of the image are typical of Indian Pala period (circa 8th–12th century) artworks.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1240.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Toling Monastery: Amitabha Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1240.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Toling Monastery: Amitabha Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1240.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Toling Monastery: Amitabha Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1240).
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