This beautifully shaped bronze Buddha makes the bhumisparsha mudra, the earth-touching gesture, with his right hand, and faces his left hand skyward while resting it on his lap. With these two gestures, this precious statue demonstrates the moment when Buddha Shakyamuni overpowered the demon Mara, getting through to the goddess of the earth to assert his enlightenment. Here, his meditative face is signified with half closed eyes. He is draped in an austere robe, resting under the Bodhi tree motif.
This statue is in overall very good condition with a fine patina and traces of age and wear. The top right side of the halo shows a repaired breakage.
Buddha Shakyamuni (Siddhartha Gautama)
Siddhartha Gautama lived in Northern India ca. 2,500 years ago. The epithet Shakyamuni refers to his princely origins and can be translated as ‘the wise man from the family of Shakya’. Born as a prince, Shakyamuni felt a deep compassion for the four sufferings of mankind (birth, aging, sickness and death) from an early age on. Eventually he left his family and went on a spiritual journey. After a few years he attained enlightenment. As Buddha (‘the awakened one’), Shakyamuni traveled all over India to share his wisdom with people and promote peace. At the age of 80 Buddha Shakyamuni passed away and his teachings gave rise to various schools of Buddhism.
Provenance
Ex. Collection of Simon Digby
Pala Dynasty
The Pala Dynasty flourished in eastern India from the 8th to the 12th century. Stunning quality art thrived under its regime as the area became one of the last strongholds of Buddhism in India. Buddhist temples from the Pala period were built out of brick and decorated with stone images that were set into wall niches. Pala style greatly influenced the art of Burma, Nepal, Tibet, Shrivijaya, and Java as Buddhist pilgrims, and monks spread Pala-period Buddhism and art with them in diverse form of art and writings.
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