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Vairocana Buddha

CHINA; Ming dynasty (1368–1644); Bronze; H: 150 cm; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California, USA
This lavishly enthroned Vairocana is seated on a tall bowl-shaped throne that is embellished with hundreds of miniature Buddhas among overlapping lotus petals. This reinterprets the passage in the Brahmajala Sutra in which Vairocana refers to himself as surrounded by a thousand lotus-borne Sakyamuni Buddhas. The figure is dressed in monastic robes with an almost winged appearance. The figure sits in full lotus position with eyes cast downward, and hands held in the uttarabodhi (supreme enlightenment) mudra.

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