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Medicine Buddha

KOREA; Unified Silla dynasty (668–935); Gilt bronze; H: 17.7 cm; National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
The figure stands with the right hand in abhaya (fearlessness) mudra and a medicine pot, that identifies this Buddha, in the left. Further signs of the figure’s enlightened status include the large usnisa, elongated earlobes that touch the shoulders and the three lines on the neck. The Buddha wears a monastic robe that bares the right shoulder. The thin material clinging to both legs is a sign of the work’s mid-8th century origin. The wooden lotus pedestal supporting the statue was added at a later stage.

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