Bhaisajyaguru (Sangs-rGyas sMan-bLa)

Bhaiṣajyaguru (Sangs-rGyas sMan-bLa)

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Titolo dell'opera:

Bhaisajyaguru

Epoca:

1801 - 1900

Inventario:

MTPT3

Misure:

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

Provenienza (nazione):

Tibet

Technique and Dimensions:

bronze and iron

Back to Focus:
Gsowa rigpa - Traditional Tibetan Medicine
Descrizione:

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.