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尺寸：H. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
年代：12-13世纪
质地：合金铜
风格：泰国 高棉(Khmer)
来源：纽约大都会博物馆
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鉴赏：
Crowned Buddha
12th–13th century
Thailand, Khmer, Lopburi

This crowned Buddha image was cast in Lopburi, the Khmer provincial capital located in central (modern day) Thailand in the early centuries of the second millennium. It reflects a new vogue in Buddhism for the crowned and bejeweled Buddha, adornment normally reserved for Buddhist saviors—bodhisattvas—not Buddhas. This reflected a new envisioning of the Buddha that drew on very early notions of the Buddha as a spiritual sovereign, a chakravartin. Eastern Indian models of the Pala period, which are known to have circulated, served as models for Lopburi artists to produce their very Khmer-style versions of this new Buddha-type.