Qigxin: Heavenly King
Wood
Qigxin: Heavenly King
CHINA, Xinjiang, Bayingolin
This statue is radically different from many of Aurel Stein’s other finds at the Qigxin site. The Heavenly King wears full armor and stands with legs apart. Because the feet were missing, they have been replaced with wooden ones. The figure has foreboding features including puckered brows, glaring eyes and a thick-lipped set mouth. The hair is wound into a topknot. A cape is thrown over the strong shoulders and hangs down behind to calf level, while a stole winds over one broken arm to thread through the belt and loop over the stomach. The original paint has faded due to the burning of the temple and only traces remain.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 856.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Qigxin: Heavenly King." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 856.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Qigxin: Heavenly King" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:856.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Qigxin: Heavenly King. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 856).
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