Artwork Search

Arts in Southeast Asia Database

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Buddha Amotabha

Keywords : Buddha, Shailendra dynasty, Borobudur

Site common nameBorobudur
Type of artworkSculpture
VillageNational Museum
Province/CityJakarta
StateWestern Java
CountryIndonesia
Geographic Coordinates
Decimal degree		Lat : -6.176944
Long : 106.821944

History of productionThayani Buddha at Jakata National Museum is taken from Borobudur, which is a circle that enshrines all five Thayani Buddhas.
ArtBuddha images in Central Java are of mixed influences between post-Kupta art and Pala art of India. The images are rather corpulent and have hair between the eyebrows according to Pala style. The robes without the edge only cover half of the bodies similar to the post-Kupta art. They sit in crossed-legs posture and on lotus base similar to Pala art.
PeriodHistorical Period
Art periodMid Central Javanese Art
Age13-15 centuries BE.
SectMahayana
Religion and beliefBuddha Amothabha is the Buddha of the west showing meditation attitude. Thayani Buddha has an immortal body in heaven, which is one of the three-level Buddhas in Mahayana.

Type of LicenseAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
RightsPrincess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation2015-07-00
Record creatorChedha Tingsanchali