Amitabha Buddha

Object Details

Label: This gleaming, majestic Buddha Amitabha (Limitless Light in Sanskrit) meditates with his legs crossed and his right hand resting on the palm of the left. The broad, smooth planes of his face and body contrast with his patched monastic robe with delicately patterned borders. A lining incised with small flowers is visible beneath the right arm and at the back.; A long inscription on the pedestal’s lowest rim relates that a minister commissioned the image to avert border wars and help all beings attain enlightenment. The inscription also records that a team of seven artists from Nepal created and gilded the bronze.
Collection: Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Exhibition History: The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room (March 12, 2022 - ongoing); Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia (October 14, 2017 to February 6, 2022); Doorway to an Enlightened World: The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection (March 19 to November 27, 2016); Art of the Gift: Recent Acquisitions (July 24 to December 13, 2015); The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection (March 13, 2010 to November 27, 2016)

Second half of the 15th century

Medium: Gilt copper repoussé; traces of pigment on hair and face; sealed with base plate; contents inside
Dimensions: H x W x D: 75 × 53.3 × 38.8 cm (29 1/2 × 21 × 15 1/4 in)

On View: Sackler Gallery 26a: The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room
Related Online Resources: Google Cultural Institute
See more items in: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Topic: casting; gilding; repoussé; engraving (incising); metal; Buddhism; Amitabha Buddha; Tibet; South Asian and Himalayan Art; Alice S. Kandell Collection

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye339328db1-09cc-46ab-929c-3aa3ce6af1cb