Maitreya Buddha
Gilt copper alloy
Maitreya Buddha
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Maitreya sits with legs pendent and his right hand held in the vitarka (teaching) mudra. The hair is in snail-shell ringlets and the brow is broad above a graceful face with regular features. The head looks downwards, supported on a neck showing the three lines of a great person. A seamless monastic robe clings to the body, only indicated by the hem about the neck and the ruffled folds defining the shape of the square throne. The scene depicted is of the Buddha teaching under the dragon flower tree after he descends to this world.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 671.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Maitreya Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 671.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Maitreya Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:671.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Maitreya Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 671).
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