Standing Buddha Image at Ananda

Site common name	Ananda
Type of artwork	Sculpture
Province/City	Bagan
State	Mandalay
Country	Myanmar
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 21.165 Long : 94.865278

History of production	King Chansittha ordered the construction of this chedi. The legend had it that monks from India told him the story about Nunthamul cave in Kunthamat mountain. He then ordered the construction of this chedi to be the same as the cave. Buddha images in the chedi may be built at the same time with the chedi.
Art	The standing Buddha image follows the genral charcteristics of Pukam art, wearing a robe that covers the whole body and the edge of the robe falls down from both hands in the split ends. This is the same as the late Pala period. Both hands show the first sermon posture, which is a special charcteristic of standing Buddha images in Pukam art.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Pagan
Age	16-18 centuries BE.
Religion	Buddhism
Sect	Theravada
Religion and belief	There are four Buddha images representing the four previous Lord Buddhas in the period including Kakusantha, Phonakamana, Kassapa, and Kotama. They are enshrined at different directions of Anada Chedi. These images are of the same style (except the one that was renovated in Mandalay period). The interpretation of the name of each image is based on the direction that they are located.

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-07-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali