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Gaochang Temple: Standing Buddha

CHINA, Shandong, Binzhou; Eastern Wei dynasty (534–550); Gilt bronze; H: 15 cm; Boxing County Museum, Binzhou, Shandong, China
The statue was excavated from the ruins of Gaochang Temple in 1981. The Buddha stands on a high, inverted lotus pedestal with hands in the abhaya (fearlessness) and varada (wish-granting) mudras. A monastic robe covering both shoulders is worn and it drapes over the wrist before flaring over the skirt in a style that echoes the shape of the petals on the pedestal. The rimmed and intersecting aureole and nimbus are enclosed within a blazing mandorla behind the figure.

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