The Buddha Amida
Also titled De boeddha Amida
c. 1125 - c. 1175
- Medium
- wood (plant material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 87 cm x width 71 cm x depth 56.5 cm x weight 11.6 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase J.G. Figgess, Tokyo, 1960)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Amida (the Buddha of the Western Paradise) is still popular in Japan. To be reborn in the Western Paradise requires a firm faith in Amida and the repeated chanting of his name. This figure’s soft, round face is characteristic of Japanese Buddha sculptures from the 12th century. The elegant facial features have been stylized, as have the hands and the drapery folds.
