ABS 055
Code: ABS 055
Country: Tibet (central)
Style:
Date: 1000 - 1100
Dimensions in cm WxHxD: 11.6 x 31.5 x 6.5
Materials: Brass
Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
The Buddha stands fully upright, his extended right hand displaying the generosity gesture while the left holds the edge of the monastic robe. His long transparent monastic robes have discrete engraved patterns and are folded at the extremities, leaving his right shoulder almost uncovered. He is endowed with all the distinctive marks and signs of a “Great being:” short curly hair, a cranial protuberance (ushnisha), elongated earlobes, and three marks on the throat, and so on.
This early Tibetan statue tends to reproduce the Indian aesthetic canons of the Gupta period transmitted through the Pala art. The smooth and shiny surface is due to extended worship associated in earlier times with regularly ritual washing and drying with a cloth.
A Buddha is an “Enlightened One”, awakened to the true nature of existence. He has transcended is human condition and is “no longer a man, nor a god”. He has reached nirvana – “the extinction” of desire and karma – and he is free from samsara, the endless cycle of existence and suffering. A Buddha generally appears as a renunciant, devoid of ornaments.
The Buddha stands fully upright, his extended right hand displaying the generosity gesture while the left holds the edge of the monastic robe. His long transparent monastic robes have discrete engraved patterns and are folded at the extremities, leaving his right shoulder almost uncovered. He is endowed with all the distinctive marks and signs of a “Great being:” short curly hair, a cranial protuberance (ushnisha), elongated earlobes, and three marks on the throat, and so on.
This early Tibetan statue tends to reproduce the Indian aesthetic canons of the Gupta period transmitted through the Pala art. The smooth and shiny surface is due to extended worship associated in earlier times with regularly ritual washing and drying with a cloth.
A Buddha is an “Enlightened One”, awakened to the true nature of existence. He has transcended is human condition and is “no longer a man, nor a god”. He has reached nirvana – “the extinction” of desire and karma – and he is free from samsara, the endless cycle of existence and suffering. A Buddha generally appears as a renunciant, devoid of ornaments.