ABS 146
Code: ABS 146
Country: Tibet
Style:
Date: 1050 - 1150
Dimensions in cm WxHxD: 7.1 x 15.8 x 3.2
Materials: Brass
Standing Buddha Shakyamuni
Standing on a small pedestal and encircled by an aureole, the Buddha raises his right hand joining the ring finger and the thumb in a variant of the protection gesture (?) and extends his right hand in the generosity gesture. Clad in folded monastic robes with engraved patterns, 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.
This standing representation of a Buddha is an example of an early Tibetan metal statue cast like a relief with the backside left open. Linear engravings and clusters of dots are one of the general characteristics of early Tibetans metal sculptures.
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.
Standing on a small pedestal and encircled by an aureole, the Buddha raises his right hand joining the ring finger and the thumb in a variant of the protection gesture (?) and extends his right hand in the generosity gesture. Clad in folded monastic robes with engraved patterns, 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.
This standing representation of a Buddha is an example of an early Tibetan metal statue cast like a relief with the backside left open. Linear engravings and clusters of dots are one of the general characteristics of early Tibetans metal sculptures.
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.