Amithaba Statue

The figure stands calmly and preachingly, the right leg out in front. Both hands with elegant slender fingers are in motion: The right hand is raised, the left extended downwards. Both show the inner palms outwards and both have the thumbs touching the third finger. They form the mudra of the wheel - the teaching. The monk's robe, flowing in noble folds like a toga, envelops both shoulders, torso and legs. The chest and feet are unclothed. The full face has a flat broad nose above renouncing lips, to which the eyebrows join as slightly raised bulges. The eyes - colourfully inset - look down between strongly slitted lids.The hair curl, spiral curls, reaches far into the forehead and rises in the middle of the head to a hemispherical outgrowth: the ushnisha (with inset pearl). In the middle of the forehead is the urna. The ears show elongated earlobes.