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Browse All : Images by <p>This sculpture represents the Buddha as he was depicted in eleventh- through thirteenth-century Pagan.</p> <p>The iconic gesture of the Buddha's lowered right hand indicates the granting of a wish. The left hand grasps the end of the robe or perhaps a sacred text. Above a simple monastic robe, the figure wears the jeweled collar, earrings, and a high crown of a universal monarch (Bodhisattva). In the center of the crown rises an elaborate lotus-topped stalk of three rings. Either a part of the crown or a tall coiffure, this protuberance evokes the usnisha, the Buddha's cranial bump.</p> <p>[This history is excerpted and modified from the following published sources: 1.Lorna Price, Masterpieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988), 102. 2.'Recent Acquisitions: Crowned Buddha,' Members Bulletin, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 23, no. 2: 6.]</p>
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Creator Name-CRT
Burma (Pagan)
Title
Crowned Buddha
Creation Date
c. 1300-1400
AMICA Contributor
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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