Brass Buddha Sculpture - Universal Teacher Statue for Home & Meditation

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Dimensions: 33.5 inch X 9 inch X 9 inch Brass Sculptures: Buy Ganesha, Buddha & Nataraja Sculptures | ExoticIndiaBrass SculptureAn aesthetically rendered masterpiece of spiritual art, the brassstatue, anodized in lustrous gold and bright tint of copper, besidesshading using darker tints of either, gold for body colour, and copperfor sanghati, the only wear the figure has been draped with,represents Lord Buddha journeying around for spreading the light : theultimate knowledge that he had attained. One of the most widely andpopularly represented forms of the Great Master the tall slenderfigure with great sublimity enshrining the face has been classified inthe Buddhist iconographic tradition as Buddha, the universalteacher. The statue represents the stage in his life when afterattaining Enlightenment he decides to move around the world and teachthe path of redemption from the fear of old age, sickness and death,and finally from the cycle of death and birth.Not any particular event or occasion as the statues illustratingDharma-chakra pravartana putting the wheel of Law in motion,represent, the universal teacher statues represent the sum of hisforty years long travels that he performed till his Mahaparinirvanafor enlightening the world. A tall slender figure usually with aforward thrust but sometimes also in still posture with knotted orgesticulated fingers as if elaborating a point, known in iconographicterminology as vitark-mudra interpretive posture, often in a longritual robe sanghati, a term used for Buddhas long gown type wearor for the long sheet that draped his figure, and divine quiescence,sublimity, great spiritual strength and divine aura reflecting on hisface, is usually the image that represented the Buddha, the universalteacher.One of the four most significant stages in his life, other beingdifferent aspects as Sakya Muni including emaciated Buddha and Buddhain meditation, Bhumi-sparsha the