Indian Sculpture c9.121

c9.121

93. Neither spiritual realisations such as that of the Buddha, nor the systems built on them, necessarily synchronise in India with an art-form which expresses them. As in the case of the Bodhisattva-Buddha image, a millenium may lie between them. The inscription rightly calls also this image a Bodhisattva (cf. note 64). The state of mind shown in this image belongs to a stage prior to the attainment of nirvāṇa.