Khmer Buddha body Lapbur 11th C

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Lot: 823

Khmer Buddha body Lapbur 11th C

This torso of Buddha, endowed with singular refinement in every detail of its chiseling, iconographically presents some of the "lakshana" or specific features that allow us to recognize him as Siddhartha Gautama. The slightly closed eyelids are a symbol of spiritual concentration and purity due to their similarity to lotus petals. The serene face lights up with a barely hinted smile. A sinuous line follows the lip profile, marking with similar delicacy the perfect arch of the eyebrows, the almonds of the eye sockets and the bridge of the nose. Each curve has been meditated and balanced to communicate the serenity characteristic of a perfect being. The elongated earlobes allude to the large earrings worn by members of the upper classes in contemporary India to Gautama Siddartha and represent the concepts of greatness, nobility and wisdom.

The Khmer empire was the largest empire in Southeast Asia and its core corresponded more or less to current Cambodia. The empire, which had become independent from the kingdom of Srivijaya and eventually replaced the kingdom of Chenla, controlled or made vassals of present-day Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Indonesia. During the empire''s formation, the Khmer Empire had very close cultural, political, and trade ties with Java first, and with Srivijaya, which lay in the south of the empire. His most important legacy is Angkor, which was the capital of the empire during its heyday. Angkor is the best testimony to the power and wealth of the empire, as well as the diversity of beliefs that followed one another over the centuries. The official religions of the empire were Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism until Theravada Buddhism took over after its introduction from Sri Lanka in the 13th century. Modern satellites have revealed that Angkor was the largest pre-industrial human settlement in the world, larger than modern New York and all. Angkor''s history as the center of the historic Kambuja kingdom is also the history of the Khmer Empire from the 9th to the 15th century. 55 x 35 x 13cm

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Object

Khmer torso

Measures

55 x 35 x 13cm

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