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10th Century Eastern Javanese Dhyani Buddha Vairocana browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Southeast Asian:Sculpture: Pre AD 1000: item # 853215 Please refer to our stock # 1093 when inquiring.
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Details: A charming example of an early Eastern Javanese image of Vairocana the foremost of the five transcendent Dhyani Buddhas and the most revered of the cosmic Buddhas in early Javanese Buddhist society. Vairocana is sitting in the adamantine vajraparyanka attitude and makes the wisdom fist bodhyagrimudra. His robe is worn in the usual manner, leaving his right shoulder bare. The slimness of the torso, a feature of Eastern Javanese work, is accentuated by his exceptionally tall cranial protuberance of enlightenment, his usnisha. The quality, fine detailing and generally small size of early bronze images in Java has earned its craftsmen the reputation as the great miniaturists of Southeast Asian Art. In Mahayana and tantric Vajrayana Buddhism, Vairocana is the supreme Buddha who is the cosmic counterpart of Sakyamuni in his teaching mode. He is the most prominent of the five Dhyani Buddhas, those who were born as humans to propagate the dharma. Though without canonical basis, Vairocana holds a special place in Tibetan Buddhism and has a special role in the Avatamsaka-sutra, in which he is the solar Buddha who is both the ultimate reality of the cosmos and the one who pervades its component parts. His symbol is the wheel and he is usually depicted with his hands in the teaching mudra. Meditation on Vairocana vanquishes ignorance. Age: First half of the 10th Century. Height: 11.5 cm. Remarks: For two similar 10th century Eastern Javanese Vairocana images see Plates 147 and 148 “The Lotus Transcendent” Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection. |
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