Western Xia Tomb 3: Kalavinka
Terracotta
Western Xia Tomb 3: Kalavinka (side)
Western Xia Tomb 3: Kalavinka
CHINA, Ningxia, Yinchuan; Western Xia period
The statue was found in Tomb 3 of the Western Xia Tombs in 2001 and was once an architectural ornament. The kalavinka has a human head and a bird-like body. The creature’s hands are folded in reverence before the chest. The wrists are adorned with bracelets, while a thick necklace hangs over the chest. The hair is tied into a topknot behind a headdress from which large ribbons hang down to the shoulders. An urna is located on the forehead, above a pair of slanted eyes. The wings expand outward, each feather carved with great detail, and the tail rises in a high arc behind the front facing form. The figure perches on a cloud-patterned base.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1344.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Western Xia Tomb 3: Kalavinka." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1344.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Western Xia Tomb 3: Kalavinka" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1344.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Western Xia Tomb 3: Kalavinka. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1344).
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