Head of a Buddha
Schist
Head of a Buddha
PAKISTAN
A characteristic of this late Gandharan sculpture is the clusters of snail-shell hair that rise to form a usnisa. The broad forehead is marked by the large indentation between the eyebrows that originally contained a gem stone representing an urna. Ears frame the rounded face and have elongated lobes that curve decoratively outwards. The eyebrows join to form the long bridge of the nose and frame the deep set eyes that are half-closed. The mouth is delicate and slightly downturned under a mustache. The three lines of a great person is barely visible beneath the well-rounded chin.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 417.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Head of a Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 417.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Head of a Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:417.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Head of a Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 417).
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