The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Standing Buddha
c. 800s
Location: not on view
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The robe is covered with flowers on the front and back, possibly alluding to the flowers falling from heaven as the Buddha descended back to earth.Description
This small sculpture was probably part of a set of eight main scenes from the life of the Buddha, each identified by a specific hand gesture. When the standing Buddha gestures down with his right hand, with the palm facing out, he usually signals his miraculous descent from the Heaven of the Thirty-three Gods, where he once spent a monsoon season giving teachings to his mother. She died shortly after his birth and was reborn in the heaven.- 1973–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- "The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31-78. Mentioned: no. 184, p. 79; Reproduced: no. 184, p. 63 www.jstor.org
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1973.159