Image / Standing Bodhisatva statue (of Maitreya)

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Title: Standing Bodhisatva statue (of Maitreya)
Creator: de Silva, Preethi
Date Created and/or Issued: 1999
Publication Information: Claremont Colleges Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Ancient Cultural Sites and Royal Residences
Rights Information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description: Finely carved in dolomite marble, the bare chest and arms are adorned with jewelry; the right hand holds a lotus blossom and the left hand is in abhaya mudrā. It is considered to be a modern statue of the Bodhisattva Maithreya and is now in a new image house.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00337.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/444
Subject: Statues
Time Period: Unknown (Possibly modern)
Place: Mahāvihāra (The "great" monastery): Ruvanvälisǟya Dāgäbe (Mahāthūpa)
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15