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Meditating Buddha image
Keywords : Buddha image, Bangkok National Museum , Buddha image of meditation attitude , Bayon, khmer art in Thailand
| Site common name | Bangkok National Museum |
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| Site alternative name | Phra Nakhon National Museum |
| Type of artwork | Sculpture |
| Sub district | Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang |
| District | Khet Phra Nakhon |
| Province | Bangkok |
| Region | Central |
| Country | Thailand |
| Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree | Lat : 13.7576 Long : 100.492222 |
| Geographic Coordinates UTM | Zone : 47 P Hemisphere : N E : 661329.97 N : 1521418.09 |
| Place of artwork | Inside Bangkok National Museum |
| History of production | There is no evidence related to the origin. |
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| Production process | Carved sandstone |
| Conservation | Found in Wat Phra Sri Mahadhat, Mueang, district, Lopburi |
| Size | Height 100 cm. |
| Art | The sculpture is sitting on a lotus base in a meditation position. The face seems calm and in a square shape. Both eyes are looking low. The eyebrows are more arched than the general Buddha images in Lopburi Arts. The nose and the mouth are well balanced. The hair between eyebrows is in the center of the forehead and there is hair from the visor above the forehead as well and this is one point that differentiates this sculpture from other general Buddha images in Lopburi Arts. The hair is put up into a spiral shape and the skull raised in the middle of the head is in a spiky cone shape. The sculpture is wearing a slanted robe with a large rectangular double-thick outer robe engraved over the left shoulder. The base that supports the sculpture only shows the lotus petals facing up. |
| School | Lopburi |
| Key academic information | This Meditating Buddha image is in a perfect condition. This can be one of the beautiful and complete examples of Buddha images in Lopburi or Khmer Arts, Bayon or local scool style, in Thailand. |
| Period | Historical Period |
| Art period | Lopburi, Khmer Art in Thailand |
| Age | Late 18th century B.E |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Type of License | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
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| Rights | Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre |
| Date of record creation | 2016-09-30 |
| Record creator | Rungroj Thamrungraeng |
| Bibliography | ศักดิ์ชัย สายสิงห์. พระพุทธรูปในประเทศไทย รูปแบบ พัฒนาการ และความเชื่อของคนไทย. กรุงเทพฯ : ภาควิชาประวัติศาสตร์ศิลปะ คณะโบราณคดี มหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 2556. ศักดิ์ชัย สายสิงห์. ลพบุรีหลังวัฒนธรรมเขมร. กรุงเทพฯ : มติชน, 2559. สุภัทรดิศ ดิศกุล, หม่อมเจ้า. ศิลปะสมัยลพบุรี. กรุงเทพฯ : มหาวิทาลัยศิลปากร, 2547. |
