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BUDDHA
SHAKYAMUNI
Provenance:
Size:
8.25 inches
Material:
Bronze (high copper content)
This a splendid ancient Chinese sculpture of the Buddha Śākyamuni
or Shakyamuni ("sage of the Shakyas) – he is the key figure in
Buddhism, and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed
by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his
followers. This portrait exudes a sense of natural great peace and shows the
Buddha “touching the earth: as at the time of realisation and enlightenment.
The
Buddha is the embodiment of enlightened being and his teachings of the middle
way and five-fold path are central to Buddhist philosophy across the world.
Various collections of teachings attributed to Gautama were passed down by oral
tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later. Early Western
scholarship tended to accept the biography of the Buddha presented in the
Buddhist scriptures as largely historical, but currently "scholars are
increasingly reluctant to make unqualified claims about the historical facts of
the Buddha's life and teachings.
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