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Statue of "the Buddha meditating." The Buddha's hands are in the dhyāna mudrā position. (Wat Xieng Thong, Luang Phrabāng, Laos) The most important aspect of the iconography of the Buddha is gestures made with the hands, known as mudrā. These gestures have meanings which are known throughout the Buddhist world, and when combined with the ...
TV Buddha is a video sculpture by Nam June Paik first produced in 1974, but exists in multiple versions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the work, a Buddha statue watches an image of itself on a TV screen. The screen's image is produced by a live video camera trained on the Buddha statue.
The reclining Buddha of Zhangye The reclining Buddha of the Hpo win caves Golden gilded reclining Buddha at Sambok Mountain in Kratié, Cambodia [2] Butunehanzu (仏涅槃図) at Kongōbu-ji (Heian period) The reclining Buddha of Wat Pho Reclining Buddha statue in the Revival Lê period Reclining Buddha Statue in Mendut Temple complex, Indonesia.
Face of the statue, from 3 angles. Base of the statue. Standing Buddha, National Museum, New Delhi. Hand detail. From another direction, Chinese historical sources and mural paintings in the Tarim Basin city of Dunhuang accurately describe the travels of the explorer and ambassador Zhang Qian to Central Asia as far as Bactria around 130 BC, and the same murals describe the Emperor Han Wudi ...
Weighing 3954 grams, the statue presents a more mobile size compared to the colossal Buddhas at Yungang and Longmen. The Buddha is seated in the lotus position , his right hand in the abhayamudra , and left hand resting on the robe, which maintains the older kasaya style.
Big Buddha statue. The Buddha statue depicts Buddha in a state of calm and purity and resolve, having overcome temptation and fear sent at him by Mara, Lord of Illusion.. Known as the Mara posture, the left hand rests palm open and up in the statue's lap, the right hand facing down over the right knee, almost to the gr
The Buddha Preaching his First Sermon is a stone sculpture of the 5th-century CE showing Gautama Buddha in the "teaching posture" or dharmachakra pravartana mudrā. [2] The relief is 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) tall, and was excavated at Sarnath, India by F. O. Oertel during the 1904–1905 excavation season of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI); it was found in an area to the south of the Dhamek ...
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