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Description: | Burmese bronze buddha with painted decoration on hair and ivory eyes. Figure as Shakyanamui (historial Buddha or Enlightened One who was born Prince Siddhartha c. 563BC in Himalayas/North India). Seated in typical dhyanasana (meditation posture of being seated with legs crossed and soles of feet visable). Both hands expressed in lotus mudra, where right hand touches the ground with fingertips and right hand rests on the lap with palm facing upwards, symbolises the moment Buddha sat under the Bodhi tree, touched the ground and promised not to leave until this reached Enlightenment.
Burmese bronzed metal figure of Sakayanamui Buddha with painted decoration on hair and eyes. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Buddhism Burma Asian art Decorative arts Religion Decoration and ornament Asian Decorative Art | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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