Seated Sakyamuni Buddha
500s–600s
- Medium
- stone
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 11.4 x 7.6 x 7 cm (4 1/2 x 3 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Korean Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Created during the Unified Silla period, a high point of the spread of Buddhist teachings, this kind of miniature statue was often used as a portable object of devotion by traveling Buddhist monks. This particular Buddhist statue is very similar in style and size to the one in the collection of the National Museum of Korea. See it in the following link: https://www.museum.go.kr/site/main/relic/search/view?relicId=1926
