Sakyamuni Buddha
Gilt bronze
Sakyamuni Buddha
CHINA; Northern Wei dynasty
The Buddha is seated in full lotus position on a flat cushion that may have been the top of a throne stand. The figure’s robes are arranged to leave the right shoulder bare but a fold is brought around to cover the back. The Buddha’s right hand is raised in abhaya (fearlessness) mudra and shows webbing between the fingers, one of the Buddha’s Thirty-Two Marks of Excellence. The other hand secures the fold of the monastic robe about the left arm. The hair is plaited and arranged with a whorl at the front.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 912.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Sakyamuni Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 912.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Sakyamuni Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:912.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Sakyamuni Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 912).
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