Vairochana – “The Illuminator” one of the five Jinas
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Orientation 3
Display 3
ABS 305
Code: ABS 305
Country: Indonesia (Java)
Style: Borobodur style
Date: 800 - 800
Dimensions in cm WxHxD: 10
Materials: Bronze
Vairochana – The “Illuminator,” one of the five Jinas
Vairochana, the “Illuminator,” sits legs crossed in meditation, his hands joined before his chest performing the teaching gesture of “setting in motion the wheel of the Law.” Devoid of any ornament, he appears as a renunciant, 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, three marks on the throat, and so on.
Of the five transcendent Buddhas or Jinas, Vairochana is the central Buddha, lord of the Buddha family, and his skin is of white colour. His symbol is the wheel, and he transmutes the mental poison of ignorance-dullness into the wisdom of all-encompassing space. This metal statue is in the style of Borobudur in Indonesia, the world’s largest architectural representation of a mandala.
Vairochana, the “Illuminator,” sits legs crossed in meditation, his hands joined before his chest performing the teaching gesture of “setting in motion the wheel of the Law.” Devoid of any ornament, he appears as a renunciant, 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, three marks on the throat, and so on.
Of the five transcendent Buddhas or Jinas, Vairochana is the central Buddha, lord of the Buddha family, and his skin is of white colour. His symbol is the wheel, and he transmutes the mental poison of ignorance-dullness into the wisdom of all-encompassing space. This metal statue is in the style of Borobudur in Indonesia, the world’s largest architectural representation of a mandala.