Seated Buddha
Gilt bronze
Seated Buddha
CHINA; Sixteen Kingdoms
The Buddha has hair slightly parted at the center and a large usnisa. The figure sits with legs crossed on an ornamented lion throne, the body bent slightly forward. The monastic robe has raised folds covering both shoulders. The hands are joined in a variation of the dhyana (meditation) mudra with palms facing inward. This statue is similar in style to the earliest inscribed Buddha image from China, which dates from 338 and is in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 994.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Seated Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 994.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Seated Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:994.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Seated Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 994).
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