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Standing Bodhisattva with Human-Figure Necklace

A work made of phyllite.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of phyllite.

Date:

Kushan period, 2nd/3rd century

Artist:

Pakistan
Ancient region of Gandhara

About this artwork

This sculpture of a bodhisattva—probably the future Buddha Maitreya—typifies the Gandharan style, which adopted a Hellenistic idiom apparent in such features as the chiseled musculature of the abdomen and the plush folds of the fabrics draped around the body. He sports an elegant chignon, heavy jewelry, a floral headband, a mustache, and an urna—a whorl of hair between the eyebrows that is one of the special lakshanas (marks) of a Buddha. Bodhisattvas, who entered the pantheon of Mahayana Buddhism around the turn of the first millennium, embarked on the path to enlightenment for the benefit of all humanity.

Status

On View, Gallery 101

Department

Arts of Asia

Title

Standing Bodhisattva with Human-Figure Necklace

Place

Gandhara (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

199 CE–300 CE

Medium

Phyllite

Dimensions

150.5 × 53.3 × 19 cm (59 1/4 × 21 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf

Reference Number

2015.445

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