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Buddha Sculpture

Keywords : Buddha image, Phnom Da, Mahayana Buddhism, Gupta, Abhaya Mudra

Type of artworkSculpture
VillageMusée Guimet
CountryCambodia
Geographic Coordinates
Decimal degree		Lat : 48.864722
Long : 2.293611

ArtThe Standing Buddha Image with The Abhaya Mudra or Standing Repelling Posture. and walking images. The gesture can be made with the right hand, the left hand or both hands. The hand is held upwards, palm facing outward, the fingers together, the arm bent at the elbow. The Fleshy protuberance on the crown of the head is in the spiral without unalom ( hair between eyebrows). The eyes look low. The robe is very thin and look like it is wet. It is fully covered the whole body without stripe in the Indian’s Gupta art of Sarnath School. The right arm raised up in the Vitarka Mudra (teaching gesture) Position while the left arm that is missing, is assumed to originally hold the seam of the robe in the pattern of Gupta Art. The Buddha Image is firmly upstanding.
PeriodHistorical Period
Art periodPhnom Da
Age12th Buddhist Century
SectMahayana

Type of LicenseAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
RightsPrincess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation2015-02-00
Record creatorChedha Tingsanchali