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A small gilt bronze figure of the seated Buddha Vairocana Late Ming-Early Qing Dynasty image 1
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A small gilt bronze figure of the seated Buddha Vairocana
Late Ming-Early Qing Dynasty

Chinese Works of Art and Paintings
15 March 2021, 10:00 EDT
New York

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A small gilt bronze figure of the seated Buddha Vairocana

Late Ming-Early Qing Dynasty
Seated in vajrasana, his hands held in abhisekana mudra, (annointing) his robes edged in lotus scrolling and tied at the waist, his chest bared, the face with a soft meditative expression below a large five-leaf diadem each accommodating a buddha image, Tathagatas, within a nimbus, large ribbons falling from the crown along the shoulders and down the sides, no base plate.
6 1/4in (15.8cm) high

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明晚期至清早期 銅鎏金大日如來佛坐像

The hand gesture abhisekana mudra is not commonly applied to the Vairocana in Tibetan Buddhism but was adopted in its unique Chinese form. Other characteristics include the full-rounded face and the floral design on the garment edges. The Vairocana is one of the pricipal dieties of the Five Takagatas. The meaning of the word Vairocana is "the all pervasive light of the sun".

For much larger buddha images with the same hand gesture, see the Royal Ontario Museum example www.rom.on.ca. Buddhist sculpture, reportedly from Shijiazhuang in Hebei province and another from the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Museum Fur Volkerkunde, Germany, is illustrated in Hai-wai Yi-chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collection, Buddhist Sculpture II, Taipei, 1990, p. 185, no. 175.

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