Namsan Yaksugok Valley Rock Carvings: Standing Buddha
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Namsan Yaksugok Valley Rock Carvings: Standing Buddha - Hand
Namsan Yaksugok Valley Rock Carvings: Standing Buddha - Foot
Namsan Yaksugok Valley Rock Carvings: Standing Buddha
SOUTH KOREA, North Gyeongsang, Gyeongju; Unified Silla dynasty
Only the trunk of the Buddha’s body now remains on this mountainside boulder. The 12.6 m high rock carving is currently the largest among the Namsan cliffs in Gyeongju. It is listed as Provincial Tangible Cultural Property No. 114.
The monastic robe draped over the broad shoulders is carved in vertical lines while the inner robe ripples down in a style usually associated with the late Unified Silla dynasty (668–935). The hands form the lowest grade of the middle class mudra, in which the left hand is raised and the right hand lowered, with the thumbs and the middle fingers touching.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves Mo-S, page 1259.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Namsan Yaksugok Valley Rock Carvings: Standing Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves Mo-S, vol. 8, 2016, pp. 1259.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Peter Johnson, Mankuang, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Namsan Yaksugok Valley Rock Carvings: Standing Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves Mo-S, 8:1259.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Johnson, P., Mankuang, Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Namsan Yaksugok Valley Rock Carvings: Standing Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Caves Mo-S (Vol. 8, pp. 1259).
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