Thaise Boeddha container sorcerers and intercessors who protect

sorcerers and intercessors who protect the living from black magic and provide them with remedies for diseases

Sometimes the figure in the basket had a hollowed out space in the back - sometimes even with a door - as a storage place for amulets and other magical objects

Lengte: ±30 cm (lineair)

With Brahma and Vishnu he forms the Trimurti of creator-preserver-destroyer

' It is in fact an iconographic representation of India's rich and diverse cultural heritage and was developed in southern India by artists of the 9th and 10th centuries during the Chola period (880-1279 CE) in a series of beautiful bronze sculptures

Thaise Boeddha container sorcerers and intercessors who protectEarth touching boeddha met Bhumisparsha mudra. Materiaal: brons. Hoogte: 22,5 cm. Het boeddhisme in Thailand is grotendeels van de Theravada school, die wordt gevolgd door 95 procent van de bevolking. Thailand heeft de derde grootste boeddhistische bevolking ter wereld, na China en Japan, met ongeveer 64 miljoen boeddhisten. Het boeddhisme in Thailand is ook gentegreerd geraakt met de volksreligie en de Chinese religies van de Thaise Chinese