Tuokuzisalai: Head of a Bodhisattva
Clay
Tuokuzisalai: Head of a Bodhisattva
CHINA, Xinjiang, Kashgar
This artwork was discovered at Tuokuzisalai, a historic Buddhist temple in present day Xinjiang. The head was probably produced by a mold but has dimples at the corners of the mouth and a well-defined chin. The ears are slightly curved due to the extended earlobes that are pierced to accommodate large floral earrings. The lines on the neck were roughly impressed by the sculptor’s tool to indicate one of the signs of a great person. A fragment of the buoyant stole is visible behind the neck. Curly hair tumbles down the side of the head and, like the ears set into it, appears to have been molded separately and added later.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1261.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Tuokuzisalai: Head of a Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1261.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Tuokuzisalai: Head of a Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1261.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Tuokuzisalai: Head of a Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1261).
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