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| Keywords: Cambodian - Eight-armed Avalokiteshvara - Walters 542726.jpg This figure of the Bodhisattva of Compassion is a bronze replica of one of the twenty-three stone images King Jayavarman VII sent to different parts of the kingdom in 1191 in a celebration of the compassion the king attributed to his own father The small figures of the Buddha can be understood as representing the qualities of Buddhahood that lie in every pore of Avalokiteshvara's skin and the figures around the waist are an outward manifestation of advanced techniques of meditation ca 12th-13th century Bàyon low-tin bronze cm 48 accession number 54 2726 9412 Brahmanical Temple Bot Phram Bangkok Alexander B Griswold Monkton July 1949 presented to the Breezewood Foundation December 1960 inv no 471 Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Bequest of A B Griswold 1992 Unearthly Elegance Buddhist Art from the Griswold Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1995 place of origin Angkor Wat Cambodia Walters Art Museum license Southeast Asian art in the Walters Art Museum Sculptures from Cambodia Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
