Period:Unknown Production date:11thC
Materials:bronze, gold,
Technique:gilded, cast,
Subjects:stupa bodhisattva
Dimensions:Height: 20.20 centimetres
Description:
Figure of the bodhisattva Maitreya seated on a lotus throne; with a small stūpa in the crown; an eccentric variation on vitarka in the right hand. Made of gilt cast bronze.
IMG
![图片[1]-figure BM-1959-0713.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Bronzes/mid_00332323_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-figure BM-1959-0713.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Bronzes/mid_00146439_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-figure BM-1959-0713.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Bronzes/mid_RRC14357.jpg)
Comments:Zwalf 1985The image is identified as Maitreya by the small ‘stūpa’ in the crown. In style it is comparable with the seated clay Bodhisattvas within the ‘Bojiajiao (Bhagavat)’ library hall, constructed in 1038 at the Lower Huayan temple, Datong, Shanxi province, when that city was western capital of the Khitan Liao dynasty. The ‘mudrā’ of the right hand, an eccentric variation on ‘vitarka’, argumentation of the Doctrine, is common to several Huayan figures.
Materials:bronze, gold,
Technique:gilded, cast,
Subjects:stupa bodhisattva
Dimensions:Height: 20.20 centimetres
Description:
Figure of the bodhisattva Maitreya seated on a lotus throne; with a small stūpa in the crown; an eccentric variation on vitarka in the right hand. Made of gilt cast bronze.
IMG
Comments:Zwalf 1985The image is identified as Maitreya by the small ‘stūpa’ in the crown. In style it is comparable with the seated clay Bodhisattvas within the ‘Bojiajiao (Bhagavat)’ library hall, constructed in 1038 at the Lower Huayan temple, Datong, Shanxi province, when that city was western capital of the Khitan Liao dynasty. The ‘mudrā’ of the right hand, an eccentric variation on ‘vitarka’, argumentation of the Doctrine, is common to several Huayan figures.
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