Made around 1300, this statue relates stylistically to images made in the Shalen Monastery in Central Tibet. It belongs to an early tradition of sophisticated casting imbued with a spirit of naturalism and fine proportions. The style derives from Pala Indian Buddhist sculpture of the tenth and eleventh centuries.
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Title:Amoghasiddi
Artist:Artist Unknown
Date:late 13th-14th century
Creation Place:Asia, Tibet,
Credit Line:Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton
Accession Number:99.124.1
Artist:Artist Unknown
Date:late 13th-14th century
Creation Place:Asia, Tibet,
Credit Line:Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton
Accession Number:99.124.1
This bronze image of a crowned Buddha in the pose of meditation (dhyanamudra) represents Amoghasiddi, one of the five transcendental Buddhas of the Vajrayana pantheon. The system of esoteric Buddhism known as Vajrayana evolved a hierarchy with the supreme (Adi) Buddha at the top, from whose meditations emerged the five transcendental Buddhas, each of which was associated with a direction. The Buddha Amoghasiddi represents the north.
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