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propertY From the CoLLeCtIon oF roBert Commonly referred to as the ‘medicine 藏漢 十七世紀 銅鎏金藥師佛坐像
YoUnGman Buddha’, the deity is worshipped as a
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF healer who can relieve suffering through his 來源
BHAISAJYAGURU teachings. the famous Chinese Buddhist monk, Rossi & Rossi，倫敦，2005年10月1日
Xuanzang, visited a monastery at Bamiyan,
TIBETO-CHINESE, 17TH CENTURY afghanistan in the 7th century, a site that has
since been excavated by archaeologists who
the deity cast seated in dhyanasana on a
double-lotus throne with beaded edges, the discovered remnants of a scroll containing the
hands in dhyana mudra and supporting an alms Bhaisajyaguru Sutra, attesting to the enduring
bowl, clad in a pleated robe draped over the left popularity of this manifestation of Buddha with
shoulder and cascading in crisp symmetrical healing powers.
folds near the feet, further depicted with a $ 20,000-30,000
meditative expression below thin arched brows
and an urna, flanked by a pair of pendulous
earlobes pierced with vertical slots, all below an
ushnisha atop hair neatly arranged in rows of
small whorls, lacking the base plate
height 5⅛ in., 13 cm
PROVENANCE
rossi & rossi, London, 1st october 2005.
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