Image / Monastery; Seated Buddha statue; Virāsana; Vitarka mudrā; Nunnery

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Title: Monastery; Seated Buddha statue; Virāsana; Vitarka mudrā; Nunnery
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2009
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: Seated Buddha statue of crystalline limestone. It is of the (Indian) Post-Gupta period and may be from the 9th or 10th century CE. The right hand is held in the vitarka mudra. Snail-shell curls are arranged in horizontal layers and also cover the ushnisha. It is likely that it was a product of the Abhayagiri school. The monastery complex is of the Pabbatarāma vihāra type. Height: 2.07 meters.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00492.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/601
Subject: Buddha
Statues
Time Period: Circa 5th-6th century CE
Place: Asokārāma Monastery
Anurādhapura/Pankuliya
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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