Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.147

c7.147

The genuine Indian feeling and the Indian ideal appear again in a very fine statuette cast in copper, from Nepal, of a Bodhisattva, probably Maitreya, the coming Buddha, "the Loving One," preaching. The date of it is difficult to determine: the figure itself may be of the eighth century, or earlier, but the pedestal and aureole behind are quite modern.