IMPORTANTE STATUE D'AMITAYUS EN BRONZE DORE

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

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IMPORTANTE STATUE D'AMITAYUS EN BRONZE DORE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
Représenté assis en padmasana sur un socle lotiforme ouvragé, les mains en dhyanamudra soutenant le vase, vêtu d'un dhoti ourlé de fines fleurs, le torse nu paré de bijoux, les épaules couvertes d'une écharpe flottant autour de ses bras, le visage serein, le front portant l'urna en opaline incrustée, les cheveux coiffés en un haut chignon, le front ceint d'un diadème élaboré ; non scellé
Hauteur: 19 cm. (7½ in.)

來源

Formely in the collection of Mr. Günter Markert, Germany

出版

Günter Markert, Buddhas-Götter und Dämonen, Munich 1950, pp.11-12 and pl.6

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AN IMPORTANT AND ELABORATED GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AMITAYUS
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

拍品專文

During the Qianlong period, the worship of Amitayus, the Buddha of Infinite Life became extremely popular, partly due to the Qianlong emperor's self-identification with that deity. A supra-manifestation of Amitabha, Buddha of Infinite Light residing in the Pure Land of the Western Paradise, he was believed to have authority over the after-life and holds an ambrosia vase (kalasa), bearing the water of life.
This depiction as amitayus represents the culmination of the development of Amitabha as the most popular deity in Chinese Buddhism, as Amitabha himself was seen as a Transcendental manifestation of the qualities of the Buddhahood within the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni.