The Asuka Daibutsu is a giant statue of Buddha located in Nara Prefecture in Japan. It is believed to date back to 609 CE, making it one of the oldest surviving Buddha statues in the world. The statue is made of bronze and stands at an impressive 12 meters (39 feet) tall.

In the first century A.D., the human image of one Buddha came to dominate the artistic scene, and one of the first sites at which this occurred was along India’s northwestern frontier. In the area known as Gandhara, artistic elements from the Hellenistic world combined with the symbolism needed to express Indian Buddhism to create a unique style.

The statue is the first statue of the Buddha to be ever found west of Afghanistan. [60] It attests to the extent of Indo-Roman relations in the early centuries of our era. [60] Based on stylistic details and the archaeological context of the excavation, it thought that the statue was made in Alexandria around the second century CE. [60]

2017年2月2日 · Following the Buddha’s death around 400 BCE, the earliest portrayals of his presence were symbolic—footprints, a vacated seat, or an empty space beneath a parasol. An early Buddhist expression that paved the way for the later statues was the stupa, a large hemispherical mound housing relics.

The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is one of the early Buddha statue built which was discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi in ancient Gandhara. This Seated Buddha statue shows as a teacher sitting the wheel of of Dharma in motion also known as Dharmachakra Mudra .

2007年2月1日 · In the first century A.D., the human image of one Buddha came to dominate the artistic scene, and one of the first sites at which this occurred was along India’s northwestern frontier. In the area known as Gandhara, artistic elements from the Hellenistic world combined with the symbolism needed to express Indian Buddhism to create a unique style.

2025年2月15日 · The rise of the first Buddhist statues brought a dramatic change that transformed Buddhist art. These sacred sculptures now carry deep meanings in their hand gestures and physical features. Long earlobes represent wisdom, and specific hand positions reflect different aspects of Buddha’s teachings.

2022年11月20日 · With local and imperial patronage under the Kushan dynasty, artisans at Gandhara further developed the Graeco-Roman anthropomorphic style, and created the first large, free-standing stone images of the Buddha, sculpted from the blue or …

2020年6月4日 · One of the earliest Buddhist stupas was at Piprahwa, a village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and only a short distance from Buddha’s birthplace.

2016年12月24日 · It is believed that the sandalwood image was the very first image in Buddhism. In modern Thai iconography the statue of the Buddha refraining his image to rise, was codified (“Halting the Sandalwood image “) with the right arm pendant alongside the body and the left hand raised to prevent the sandalwood from rising (Matics 1988; 103).