A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE OF AMIDA NYORAI (AMITABHA)
A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE OF AMIDA NYORAI (AMITABHA)
A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE OF AMIDA NYORAI (AMITABHA)
A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE OF AMIDA NYORAI (AMITABHA)
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A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE OF AMIDA NYORAI (AMITABHA)

KAMAKURA PERIOD (13TH-14TH CENTURY)

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A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE OF AMIDA NYORAI (AMITABHA)
KAMAKURA PERIOD (13TH-14TH CENTURY)
Carved and assembled from cypress wood in single-block technique (ichiboku-zukuri) and modeled as the Amitabha Buddha standing on an unseperateble round platform, the right hand raised in vitarkamudra and the left held in dhyanamudra, the hair arranged in small, snail-shaped spiral curls (rahotsu), wearing robe decorated in kirikane open at the torso and falling in pleats, inlaid jewels on the forehead and in the hair
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.)

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Amida was central to the Jodo (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism propounded in 1175 by the monk Honen, with the intent of making Buddhism more readily available to all people. Salvation could be attained by the simple repetition of the name of Amida or the Nenbutsu, of which there were a number of different methods of chanting. Many statues of the Buddha of the Western Paradise were made in response to the widespread popularity of Pure Land Buddhism from the twelfth century.

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