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