This is the largest wooden carved statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the Song Dynasty in China, with a height of two meters, with exquisite shape and huge body. It is the master of the Song Dynasty wood carvings. Currently in the National Museum, the painted wooden carving statue o

This is the largest Song Dynasty wood carving in China Guanyin Bodhisattva statue

Height is two meters, exquisite in shape, huge

is actually the master of Song Dynasty wood carvings

Currently hidden in the National Museum

Song Dynasty Painted wood carving Guanyin Bodhisattva sitting statue

" Guanyin Bodhisattva " is Kumarajiva translation

Xuanzang returned from learning and translated as " Guanyin Bodhisattva "

but failed to successfully score

Guanyin Bodhisattva has been passed down to this day

After Guanyin was introduced to my country, Wu Zetian was still male before

0 Wu Zetian evolved into the image of female


Song Dynasty Painted wood carvings Guanyin Bodhisattva’s sitting statue

This Guanyin sitting statue was lost overseas before the founding of the People’s Republic of China

Later, through collection, we saw that the earliest ones were preserved in the Song Dynasty

. The Buddhists developed to the Song Dynasty and were not as prosperous as the Tang Dynasty

, but painted wood carvings appeared. Due to the influence of Buddhist secularization, the wooden statues of Song Dynasty

are very close to the people in life at that time

Song Dynasty Painted wood carvings Guanyin Bodhisattva sitting statue

It is said that similar Song Dynasty wood carvings Guanyin

There are more than 20 pieces of

December 2016

A 1.3-meter-high Song Dynasty wood carvings

Guanyin Bodhisattva sitting statue

Estimated price 200,000 to 300,000 euros

final transaction price 5.1 million euros

Song Dynasty Painted wood carvings Guanyin Bodhisattva sitting statue

Most of the wood carvings of Buddha statues in the Song Dynasty Liao and Jin Dynasties were lost overseas

Among them, the wood carvings of Guanyin in the Song Dynasty were the most exquisite

can be said to be the ceiling of the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty

mainly distributed in Japan, Europe and the United States and other countries