Buddha Seated in Meditation
by Carlos Diaz
Title
Buddha Seated in Meditation
Artist
Carlos Diaz
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Buddha Seated in Meditation - Remastered by Carlos Diaz
16th century
Sri Lanka. western regions
This majestic Buddha is one of the finest products of sixteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhist art. The figure is seated on a lotus-vine pedestal, deep in meditation. Numerous auspicious marks (lakshana) on his body signify his Buddhahood. Convention dictates thirty-two mahapurusalakshana and eighty lesser marks, such as the forehead mark (urna), flame protuberance (ushnisha), extended earlobes and locks of hair, and lotuses on the hand and feet.
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April 29th, 2021
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