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Title	Standing Bodhisattva statue
Photographer	Bopearachchi, Osmund
Built by	King Dappula I (7th c. C.E.), according to the Mahāvamsa
Subject	Statues
Site Location	Dambegoda
Country	Sri Lanka
Year Established	In 7th c. C.E.
Description	Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. Frontal view. The free standing statue carved from a single rock of limestone/dolomite marble?; 9.85 meters in height; found fallen from its pedestal in the 1950s. Restored in 1990. Refer signage on premises. The statue represents the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, but see the signage, where it is identified also as the Bodhisattva Maitreya. The upper torso lacks clothing, but is decorated with different necklaces as well as a narrow decorated band across the chest.The jatamakuta, ornate and conical hairdress, has an image of Amitabha, the principal and celestial Buddha in Pure Land Buddhism, who is described in Mahāyāna scriptures. A flat collar necklace and a long chain with beads of decreasing size add a sense of elegance.The ears bear long earring and the arms double amulets. The hollow-worked eyes were probably inset with rock-crystal or glass. The statues's height is 9.5 m., and 10.4 m. with the lotus pedestal. It should be noted that statues of Avalokiteśvara are found in jewelled format or devoid of jewellery in an ascetic mode.
Notes	15 km from Butthala, in Moneragala District, Uva province. CA. Located at a distance of 500 meters away from Maligawila.
Publisher	Claremont Colleges Library
Date	2005
Collection	Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - http://cdm15831.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15831coll15
Rights	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Type	Image
Format	image/jp2
Object File Name	acs00059.JPG

Standing Bodhisattva statue

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