Guge White Temple: Four-Headed Bodhisattva (side)
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Guge White Temple: Four-Headed Bodhisattva
Guge White Temple: Four-Headed Bodhisattva
CHINA, Tibet, Ngari
The four-headed Bodhisattva is one of several located in the White Temple, to be distinguished from each other only by the murals behind them and by the different details of their damaged state. Round faced and smiling, the four adjacent heads share the ribbons hanging from the headdress as they face the cardinal directions. The golden skinned upper torso are wrapped in a stole and the figure wears jewelry. The blue nimbus and red aureole are trimmed with golden borders. The stole, along with the skirt and the lotus throne upon which the Bodhisattva is seated, are painted in blue and red.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 396.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Guge White Temple: Four-Headed Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 396.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Guge White Temple: Four-Headed Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:396.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Guge White Temple: Four-Headed Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 396).
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