This exceptional, gilded, cast-copper alloy image of the bhodistattva Maitreya is especially beautiful and well proportioned. The bodhisattva is seated in bhadrasana with his legs draped over the front of the pedestal with the feet resting on a lotus support. The hands are in the dharmachakramudra posture (‘turning the Wheel of Law’). Lotus blossoms are … Read more