Wenquan: Statuette of Seated Buddha
Silver
Wenquan: Statuette of Seated Buddha
CHINA, Xinjiang, Bortala; Yuan to Ming dynasty
This statuette was excavated from a temple in Wenquan, Bortala in Xinjiang in 1984. The Buddha has a two-tier usnisa, wide forehead, round face, and long earlobes which are damaged. He wears a necklace, ornaments, a bracelet, and an armlet. A stole is draped around the wide shoulders, and the slender waist is adorned with a lower garment decorated in a scroll leaf pattern. The left hand is held in front of the abdomen, while right forms the varada (wish-granting) mudra. He sits in full lotus position on a lotus throne edged with a bead pattern.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 371.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Wenquan: Statuette of Seated Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 371.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Wenquan: Statuette of Seated Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:371.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Wenquan: Statuette of Seated Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 371).
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