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Seated Sakyamuni Buddha

석조 석가여래 좌상 (石造釋迦如來坐像)

500s–600s
(57 BCE–668 CE)
stone
Overall: 11.4 x 7.6 x 7 cm (4 1/2 x 3 x 2 3/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1987.188
Location: not on view
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This seated Buddhist deity is Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism.

Description

Created during the Unified Silla period, a high point of the spread of Buddhist teachings, this kind of miniature statue was often used as a portable object of devotion by traveling Buddhist monks. This particular Buddhist statue is very similar in style and size to the one in the collection of the National Museum of Korea. See it in the following link: https://www.museum.go.kr/site/main/relic/search/view?relicId=1926
Seated Sakyamuni Buddha

Seated Sakyamuni Buddha

500s–600s

Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE)

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