This antique handcrafted statue of Shakyamuni Buddha will work as a valuable decor piece to enhance your home or workspace. The small stature will be perfect to fit in your home or workspace and also in your altar shrine. This sacred sculpture gives the practitioner direct access to the Buddha once it is ritually empowered as an embodiment of the Buddha.
In this sublime and exceedingly rare early medieval depiction of the historical Shakyamuni Buddha, he is seen seated in a yogic meditation posture, with his right hand lowered and gesturing to the Earth Goddess at the moment prior to his enlightenment, when he steadfastly resisted all the temptations of desire. He displays a number of the auspicious marks of Buddhahood (lakshanas): the extended earlobes, which serve to remind the viewer of the Buddha’s former princely status; the three rings on the neck; the forehead mark (urna, a curl of hair according to texts); and the highly pronounced skull protuberance (ushnisha).
