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107 figures
Bodhisattva Standing
  • Title Translation: ē«‹č©čØ
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The figure once stood on the north wall of Cave 14 beside the seated Buddha. Its head is now in the Barnes Foundation.

Bodhisattva Standing
  • Title Translation: ē«‹č©čØ
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The bodhisattva, one of a pair of standing bodhisattvas from Cave 4, holds a loop of his long trailing scarf in one hand.

Buddha Head
  • Title Translation: 佛夓
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The head was quite deeply cut from the torso of the central Buddha on the north wall, which still remains in Cave 17.

Bodhisattva Head
  • Title Translation: č©čØ夓
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The head is from the standing bodhisattva figure on the east wall of Cave 14.

Bodhisattva Head, 3D model
  • Title Translation: č©čØ夓 , 3D ęؔ型
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The head is from a bodhisattva on the north (back) wall, west side of the Buddha. The standing figure from which it comes is now in the Rietberg Museum, Zurich.

Bodhisattva Standing, 3D model
  • Title Translation: ē«‹č©čØ , 3D ęؔ型
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: This figure and the other standing bodhisattva in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art are a pair that once stood on opposite walls of Cave 4.

Buddha Head, 3D model
  • Title Translation: 佛夓 , 3D ęؔ型
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: This impressive head is from the principle image of Cave 14, the seated Maitreya Buddha on the north wall.

Guardian Lion
  • Title Translation: å®ˆęŠ¤ē‹®
  • Period: Tang, 618ā€“907 C.E.
  • Project: Sculptures in Longmen Caves
  • Work Description: Provenance: Wanfo (Ten Thousand Buddha) Cave, Longmen Caves, Luoyang, China [see note 1]; about 1930, removed from Wanfo Cave by local stonemasons, including Wang Kui and sold, probably by Ma Longtu (antiques dealer), Luoyang, to a Beijing dealer [see note 2]. By 1931, C. T. Loo and Co., New York [see note 3]; 1940, sold by Loo to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 7, 1940) NOTES: [1] Photographed in situ in 1907 or 1908 and published by Edouard Chavannes, Mission Archeologique dans la Chine Septentrionale (Paris, 1909), no. 305, pl. CLXXXII. The companion lion is in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. [2] According to Gong Dazhong, Longmen Shiku Yishu (The Art of Longmen Caves) (Beijing: Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 2002), pp. 58-60. [3] Dealer C. T. Loo lent the lion to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University from December 2, 1931 until September 1935.

Buddha with Two Attendants in a Niche
  • Title Translation: å¦‚ę„äø‰å°Šä½›é¾›
  • Period: Tang, 703 C.E.
  • Project: Guangzhai Temple Qibaotai Pagoda

Standing Eleven-headed Kannon (Ekādaśamukha Avalokiteśvara)
  • Title Translation: 十äø€é¢č§‚音 (ä¾å”č¾¾čØē©†å“ˆ)
  • Period: Tang, 703 C.E.
  • Project: Guangzhai Temple Qibaotai Pagoda
  • Work Description: This image is one of the seven statues of Eleven-Headed Guanyin (JÅ«ichimen Kannon) from the statue group in Baoqinsi Temple in Chinaā€™s present-day Xiā€™an, Shaanxi Province. The right hand holds a seal with the words ā€œExtinguish Sin.ā€ This attribute reflects belief in Avalokiteśvaraā€™s capacities at expiating bad karma.

Buddha Seated
  • Title Translation: 坐佛
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The Buddha sits in meditation with his right hand extended downward in the gesture of bhumispara (earth touching).

Bodhisattva Seated
  • Title Translation: åč©čØ
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The unusually well-preserved bodhisattva figure seated in royal ease has one hand raised, holding a jewel.

Buddha Seated
  • Title Translation: 坐佛
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The Buddha seated with feet resting on small supports at the base of the throne is probably Maitreya, Buddha of the future age.

Buddha Head
  • Title Translation: 佛夓
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The head is that of the seated Maitreya Buddha on the east wall of Cave 6.

Buddha Head, 3D model
  • Title Translation: 佛夓 , 3D ęؔ型
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The head was quite deeply cut from the torso of the central Buddha on the north wall, which still remains in Cave 17.

Bodhisattva Torso, 3D model
  • Title Translation: č©čØčŗ« , 3D ęؔ型
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The head has been reattached to the neck and chest and does not appear to fit perfectly. Therefore people have expressed doubt that they are from the same figure originally.

Bodhisattva Standing, 3D model
  • Title Translation: ē«‹č©čØ , 3D ęؔ型
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The figure once stood on the north wall of Cave 14 beside the seated Buddha. Its head is now in the Barnes Foundation.

Bodhisattva Head, 3D model
  • Title Translation: č©čØ夓 , 3D ęؔ型
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The photograph of this fine head of a bodhisattva on the west wall of Cave 14 in the early 1920s shows that it was missing the topknot and nose which have not been repaired.

Bodhisattva Head, 3D model
  • Title Translation: č©čØ夓 , 3D ęؔ型
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The head is from a seated bodhisattva figure from the back wall of Cave 21 that was formerly in the Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo, and is now in the National Museum of China.

Buddha with Two Attendants in a Niche
  • Title Translation: å¦‚ę„äø‰å°Šä½›é¾›
  • Period: Tang, 703 C.E.
  • Project: Guangzhai Temple Qibaotai Pagoda

Bodhisattva Head
  • Title Translation: č©čØ夓
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The head is from the seated bodhisattva formerly in Cave 17 on the east wall, north side. The body is now in the Nelson Atkins Museums of Art.

Buddha Head
  • Title Translation: 佛夓
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The Buddha head is believed to be from the north wall of Cave 5.

Bodhisattva Standing
  • Title Translation: ē«‹č©čØ
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: historical photographs show that the standing figure is from the east wall of Cave 14. The hands in front of the torso were already missing in the last century. The head is now in the British Museum.

Bodhisattva Standing
  • Title Translation: ē«‹č©čØ
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: The bodhisattva standing in a pose of reverence is from the west wall of Cave 17. The head is not original.

Bodhisattva Seated
  • Title Translation: åč©čØ
  • Period: Tang, 618-907 C.E.
  • Project: Tianlongshan Caves
  • Work Description: This fine large figure once occupied a lotus throne beside the principle Buddha image in Cave 21. It has a head made in the last century as a replacement for the original one, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.