Buddha Shakyamuni – The Historical Buddha (originally part of a stele)
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India and Nepal
Orientation 3
Display 3
ABS 105
Code: ABS 105
Country: Burma (Myanmar)
Style: Pagan Period
Date: 1000 - 1100
Dimensions in cm WxHxD: 5.7 x 9 x 3.3
Materials: Yellowish-beige stone known as “andagu”
Historical Buddha Statue originally part of a stele with the “Eight major events” of his life
Carved in fine-grained yellowish-beige stone known in Myanmar as “andagu,” this Buddha originally formed part of a stele depicting the eight major events in the life of Shakyamuni (see ABS 100).
Sitting legs crossed in meditation on a double lotus pedestal, the Buddha touches the ground with his right hand while his left rests in his lap in contemplation. Dressed as a renunciant, he is endowed with all the distinctive marks and signs of a “Great being:” short curly hair, a cranial protuberance (ushnisha), a curl of hair between the eyebrows (urna), elongated earlobes, and three marks on the throat, and so on.
The differences in style between North-Eastern Indian Pala style Buddhas and those of the Pagan kingdom are relatively subtle. The illustrated statue of Buddha Shakyamuni documents an early transitional phase in the development of the Pagan style based on the traditions of the North-Eastern Indian Pala schools.
Carved in fine-grained yellowish-beige stone known in Myanmar as “andagu,” this Buddha originally formed part of a stele depicting the eight major events in the life of Shakyamuni (see ABS 100).
Sitting legs crossed in meditation on a double lotus pedestal, the Buddha touches the ground with his right hand while his left rests in his lap in contemplation. Dressed as a renunciant, he is endowed with all the distinctive marks and signs of a “Great being:” short curly hair, a cranial protuberance (ushnisha), a curl of hair between the eyebrows (urna), elongated earlobes, and three marks on the throat, and so on.
The differences in style between North-Eastern Indian Pala style Buddhas and those of the Pagan kingdom are relatively subtle. The illustrated statue of Buddha Shakyamuni documents an early transitional phase in the development of the Pagan style based on the traditions of the North-Eastern Indian Pala schools.