Hongfo Pagoda: Amitabha Buddha
Ink and color on silk
Hongfo Pagoda: Amitabha Buddha
CHINA, Ningxia, Yinchuan; Western Xia period
This picture, discovered in 1990 in the Hongfo Pagoda Heavenly Palace, features Amitabha Buddha wearing a red monastic robe. The Buddha has a round face with long, slender eyes, small lips, and large ears. The hands form a mudra in front of the chest. Amitabha sits in full lotus position on a lotus throne atop a Sumeru platform. The Buddha is outlined in simple, concise strokes. His monastic robe and mandorla are colored with a single coat of paint, while the skin is painted using the wash technique common in Central Asian artworks.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting A-H, page 337.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Hongfo Pagoda: Amitabha Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting A-H, vol. 14, 2016, pp. 337.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Hongfo Pagoda: Amitabha Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting A-H, 14:337.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Hongfo Pagoda: Amitabha Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting A-H (Vol. 14, pp. 337).
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