Mogao Caves: Mahakasyapa
Clay
Mogao Caves: Mahakasyapa
CHINA, Gansu, Dunhuang; Northern Wei dynasty
This statue is thought to be from Mogao Cave 442. Mahakasyapa wears a monastic robe with incised folds that leaves much of the chest bare. He is portrayed as old and wrinkled, the thick neck giving way to an emaciated body with narrow shoulders, and he stands with palms joined in reverence. Damage to the surface reveals that straw and grains of sand are mixed into the clay of which the statue is composed.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves Mo-S, page 1244.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mogao Caves: Mahakasyapa." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves Mo-S, vol. 8, 2016, pp. 1244.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Peter Johnson, Mankuang, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mogao Caves: Mahakasyapa" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves Mo-S, 8:1244.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Johnson, P., Mankuang, Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mogao Caves: Mahakasyapa. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves Mo-S (Vol. 8, pp. 1244).
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