This is a statue of Maitreya Buddha, carved in white marble. Maitreya's head appears in a meat bun, and three right-handed turbine patterns are carved in a fine shape on the forehead hairline and the meat bun. The face is full, the shape is soft, and the five features show obvious characteristics of the Han people. The neck is decorated with three silkworm patterns, outside the flat shirt type kasaya, inside the monk only branch, the chest strap knot. The cassock is thrown from the right flank to the left arm, then protrudes from the right shoulder in front of the sagging body and covers the right arm. The folds of the clothes hang down to the feet. Different from the round-necked and double-necked pendent Kassaya since the late Northern Dynasty, this type of robes is a new style of Buddhist clothing popular in the Tang Dynasty. The treatment of the folds of the Kassaya has a strong realism, especially the transition of the shoulder, chest and waist is soft and natural. The left-hand hangs naturally on the knee, the right hand bends the elbow forward, the palm faces forward, the finger is incomplete, and the saying is printed. Sit with your legs down on a square pedestal, stepping on two blooming lotus flowers. Under the Buddha's seat, the square girdle of the waist, the four corners of each carved a night fork, and in the middle of each face carved an animal head. The figure is well preserved except for the mutilated fingers.

From the collection of: Henan Museum

Made by Xiang Zhou