Bodhisattva with Radiate Halo and Mandorla
Unknown Artist
This bodhisattva, holding a lotus (padma), likely represents Avalokitesvara Padmapani. Portable images stylistically related to this one circulated in Gandhara, Kashmir, and as far north as the Central Asian Buddhist kingdom of Khotan, an important trading center on the Silk Road.
Credit: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987
6th century
Phyllitic grey schist
12.7in
1987.142.89
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
Ble byddwch chi'n dod o hyd i hwn
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Casgliad barhaol