id: 147414 accession number: 1973.159 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.159 updated: 2022-01-13 10:03:12.701000 Standing Buddha, c. 800s. Burma (Myanmar). Kaolinite; overall: 13.9 cm (5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1973.159 title: Standing Buddha title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 800s creation date earliest: 800 creation date latest: 899 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Burma (Myanmar) technique: kaolinite department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Burmese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 13.9 cm (5 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1973– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The robe is covered with flowers on the front and back, possibly alluding to the flowers falling from heaven as the Buddha descended back to earth. digital description: This small sculpture was probably part of a set of eight main scenes from the life of the Buddha, each identified by a specific hand gesture. When the standing Buddha gestures down with his right hand, with the palm facing out, he usually signals his miraculous descent from the Heaven of the Thirty-three Gods, where he once spent a monsoon season giving teachings to his mother. She died shortly after his birth and was reborn in the heaven. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78. page number: Mentioned: no. 184, p. 79; Reproduced: no. 184, p. 63 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.159/1973.159_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.159/1973.159_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.159/1973.159_full.tif