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Title	Standing Buddha statue
Photographer	de Silva, Preethi
Built by	Unknown
Subject	Statues Buddha
Site Location	Sässēruwa (Räs vehera)
City/Region	North Central province, 11 km west of Avukana (location of famous Buddha statue).
Country	Sri Lanka
Year Established	Possibly contemporary with or earlier than the Avukana statue, circa 7th or 8th century CE. Inscriptions are from 2nd century BCE.
Description	Unfinished statue in granitic gneiss, and located in an earlier monastic complex with over 100 caves. It is of the same period as the better known statue at Avukana. Carved in high relief out of the living rock, in an arched recess. The statue is on an unfinished stone pedestal. The right hand is held in abhaya mudrā, unlike in the Avukana statue; the left hand only appears to hold the finely chiseled robe at the shoulder. The robe is executed with concave pleats. The right shoulder is left bare. It could be considered an example of Mahāyāna tradition of the Dhammarūci sect. Height: 11 meters (36' 1'').
Publisher	Claremont Colleges Library
Date	1999
Reference	Nandana Chutiwongs, Leelananda Prematilleke and Roland Silva, “Sri Lanka Sculpture: Buddha.” Colombo: Central Cultural Fund, 2007. Chandra Wikramagamage, “The Avukana Buddha.” Colombo: Academy of Sri Lankan Culture, 1994. Ulrich von Schroeder, “Buddhist Sculpture of Sri Lanka.” Hong Kong: Visual Dharma Publications, 1990.
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	acs00116.jpg

Standing Buddha statue

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