Jingdezhen: Statuette of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
Porcelain
Jingdezhen: Statuette of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
CHINA, Jiangxi, Jingdezhen; Northern Song dynasty
This statuette of Avalokitesvara was excavated from Songjing, Changzhou in 1978. It was created in Jingdezhen. Avalokitesvara wears a high headdress containing an image of Amitabha Buddha, with two sets of beads hanging down to the shoulders on each side. The Bodhisattva has a high forehead, narrow eyes, a thin nose, and a small mouth. The chest is decorated with a heavy necklace. A brown inner robe and a green outer robe cover both shoulders and fall loosely down over the abdomen. The hands are held in the dhyana (meditation) mudra. The Bodhisattva sits on a rocky base with a lotus flower between the bare feet.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 145.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Jingdezhen: Statuette of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 145.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Jingdezhen: Statuette of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:145.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Jingdezhen: Statuette of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 145).
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