LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: stupa

Title: Stupa panel with a mahapurusa figure, probably a yaksa honring the Buddha Period: Ikshvaku Date: 3rd century CE Culture: India, Kotta Nandayapalem, Karlapalem, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh Medium: Limestone Dimensions: Visible overall: H. 51 1/2 in. (130.8 cm); W. 34 1/2 (87.6 cm); D. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm) Classification: Sculpture Credit Line: Lent by Amaravati Heritage Centre and Museum, Andhra Pradesh Object Number: TS.191 This panel depicts a noble figure attended by four dwarfs (ganas), who alternately hold an umbrella aloft, carry a vessel, or raise their hands in reverence. All four have short, corpulent physiques and wear their hair in distinctive topknots. The central figure, dressed in princely garb, stands with his left hand on his hip and holds a large lotus bloom in his right. Such lotus-bearing figures attended by dwarfs represent the last vestiges of the yaksha (nature deity) sculptural tradition in the Andhra territories and the prototype for images of the bodhisattvas, the Buddhist saviors who first appear as attendants to the Buddha. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/762020

Title: Stupa panel with a mahapurusa figure, probably a yaksa honring the Buddha Period: Ikshvaku Date: 3rd century CE Culture: India, Kotta Nandayapalem, Karlapalem, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh Medium: Limestone Dimensions: Visible overall: H. 51 1/2 in. (130.8 cm); W. 34 1/2 (87.6 cm); D. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm) Classification: Sculpture Credit Line: Lent by Amaravati Heritage Centre and Museum, Andhra Pradesh Object Number: TS.191 This panel depicts a noble figure attended by four dwarfs (ganas), who alternately hold an umbrella aloft, carry a vessel, or raise their hands in reverence. All four have short, corpulent physiques and wear their hair in distinctive topknots. The central figure, dressed in princely garb, stands with his left hand on his hip and holds a large lotus bloom in his right. Such lotus-bearing figures attended by dwarfs represent the last vestiges of the yaksha (nature deity) sculptural tradition in the Andhra territories and the prototype for images of the bodhisattvas, the Buddhist saviors who first appear as attendants to the Buddha. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/762020

Title: Pillar abacus: elephants venerating the Rāmagrāma stupa Period: Satavahana Date: late 1st century CE Culture: India, Amaravati Great Stupa, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh Medium: Limestone Dimensions: H. 12 13/16 in. (32.5 cm); W. 25 3/4 in. (68 cm); D. 16 9/16 in. (42 cm) Display module with collar: H. 22 1/2 in. (54 cm); W. 33 1/4 in. (84.5 in.) D. 21 1/3 in. (54 cm) Classification: Sculpture Credit Line: Lent by British Museum, London Object Number: TS.014 Rights and Reproduction: © The Trustees of the British Museum This architectural element likely served as a pedestal for a seated lion, found atop commemorative pillars marking stupa entranceways. On its face is a herd of elephants venerating the Great Stupa at Ramagrama, where the eighth portion of the Buddha’s corporeal remains was interred. The scene reflects the account of the fifth-century CE Chinese pilgrim-monk Faxian, who retold the story of a group of elephants that regularly cleaned the stupa with water from their trunks and offered flowers. According to the inscription, the panel was gifted by two monastics, “the venerable Budhi and his sister, the nun Budha.” Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/761619

Title: Pillar abacus: elephants venerating the Rāmagrāma stupa Period: Satavahana Date: late 1st century CE Culture: India, Amaravati Great Stupa, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh Medium: Limestone Dimensions: H. 12 13/16 in. (32.5 cm); W. 25 3/4 in. (68 cm); D. 16 9/16 in. (42 cm) Display module with collar: H. 22 1/2 in. (54 cm); W. 33 1/4 in. (84.5 in.) D. 21 1/3 in. (54 cm) Classification: Sculpture Credit Line: Lent by British Museum, London Object Number: TS.014 Rights and Reproduction: © The Trustees of the British Museum This architectural element likely served as a pedestal for a seated lion, found atop commemorative pillars marking stupa entranceways. On its face is a herd of elephants venerating the Great Stupa at Ramagrama, where the eighth portion of the Buddha’s corporeal remains was interred. The scene reflects the account of the fifth-century CE Chinese pilgrim-monk Faxian, who retold the story of a group of elephants that regularly cleaned the stupa with water from their trunks and offered flowers. According to the inscription, the panel was gifted by two monastics, “the venerable Budhi and his sister, the nun Budha.” Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/761619

Title/Object Name: Reliquary in the Shape of a Stupa Culture: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara) Date: ca. 1st century Medium: Schist Dimensions: H. 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm) Classification: Sculpture Credit Line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987 Accession Number: 1987.142.96a–c Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/asian_...