1801 - 1900 - XIX

MTPT3

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 23; Larghezza: 22; Profondità: 16

Tibet

bronzo e ferro

Bhaiṣajyaguru is the Buddha of medicine, a central figure in the Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna traditions. Supreme manifestation of the Buddha as a “master healer,” who through his “medicine” (Dharma) cures “disease” (duḥkha) by directing the “sick person” who relies on him (the disciple) to ultimate “healing” (nirvāṇa'). His emblems are different kinds of medicinal plants and a bowl. He is often depicted with a blue-colored body, usually made of ground lapis lazuli, sitting in padmāsana, with his right hand in varadamudrā and a bud, fruit or flowering branch in the same hand. The bowl, which simultaneously represents the offering in the spiritual dimension and the instrument for preparing medicines in the material dimension, is held up in the left hand. Sculpture depicting Bhaisajyaguru (Sangs-rGyas sMan-bLa), Medicine Buddha, Master of the medical arts and healer of all ills, along with some medicinal plants, his typical emblems.