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Buddha

18. Jahrhundert | Carl Alexander Anselm Freiherr von Hügel

The bronze-cast Buddha is typical of the art of South India.The meditating Buddha holds his left hand in the dhyana mudra. This hand gesture symbolises the feminine principle of wisdom or meditation on the emptiness of things. The right hand in virtaka mudra symbolises reasoning or explaining the Buddhist teachings.

Buddha
Buddha

The bronze-cast Buddha is typical of the art of South India.The meditating Buddha holds his left hand in the dhyana mudra. This hand gesture symbolises the feminine principle of wisdom or meditation on the emptiness of things. The right hand in virtaka mudra symbolises reasoning or explaining the Buddhist teachings.

Collector:
Carl Alexander Anselm Freiherr von Hügel (1796 Regensburg - 1870 Brüssel) DNB

Time:
18. Jahrhundert

Object Name
Buddhastatue

Culture
Indien

Material/technology:
Messing

Copyright
Weltmuseum Wien

Collection area
South Asia, Southeast Asia, Himalayas

Geography
Südasien/Subkontinent/Indien

Invs.
3005

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