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Seated Sakyamuni Buddha
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About this work
Created during the Unified Silla period, a high point of the spread of Buddhist teachings, this kind of miniature statue was often used as a portable object of devotion by traveling Buddhist monks. This particular Buddhist statue is very similar in style and size to the one in the collection of the National Museum of Korea.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSeated Sakyamuni Buddha (석조 석가여래 좌상 [石造釋迦如來坐像]), 500s–600s. Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE). Stone; overall: 11.4 x 7.6 x 7 cm (4 1/2 x 3 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1987.188
