The Reclining Buddha statue at Wat Pho is 15 meters tall and 46 meters long. The statue and the building that houses it were created in 1832.
Related: Statues, Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand – National Museum of Korea in Seoul – Borobudur in Java, Indonesia – Getting An Early Start Traveling Around the World in Bangkok, Thailand
Borobudur is amazing. This photo gives a small glimpse of what it is like for more see more from my visit to Borobudur, Java, Indonesia (including a video of the view all around where this photo is taken).
Related: Buddha Statues, Borobudur Temple, Indonesia – Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem – Egyptian Hieroglyphs at the Met in NYC
Tibetan figurine of a wrathful Manjusri, with copper gild, at Shanghai Art Museum. From the Qing dynasty era (1664 to 1911).
Je Tsongkhapa, who founded the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, is said to have received his teachings from visions of Mañjuśrī.
Within Esoteric Buddhism, Mañjuśrī is a meditational deity, and considered a fully enlightened Buddha. In the Shingon school of Esoteric Buddhism, he is one of the thirteen deities to whom disciples devote themselves. He figures extensively in many Esoteric Buddhist texts such as the Mañjuśrī-mūla-kalpa and the Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti.
Related: Buddha Statues, Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia – Candi Sewu, Yogyakarta, Indonesia – Egyptian Statue in Front of the The Temple of Dendur at the Met in NYC
photo of carving at Angkor Wat, Cambodia by John Hunter
Related: Banyon Tree Overgrowing Temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia – Water Buffaloes, Cambodia – Ta Prohm temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia
This site had a large number of statues and other art displays. Photo by William Hunter.
“Susanne Wenger, a European, who has lived in Oshogbo, Nigeria, for many years, has been interested in religious symbols, dreams, fairy tales of the Yoruba. These images are syncretized in her work as shown in these two aspects of a fence and stairway in front of her home in Oshogbo.”
page 24-25, Contemporary African Arts and Crafts by Thelma Newman
Related: Egytian Statue in Front of the The Temple of Dendur at the Met in NYC – Statue of King Mankaure and His Queen (Egypt) – Cheetahs in Kenya
Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III Reinscribed by Merneptah, 1390–1353 B.C.. The statue is from Thebes, Luxor, in the Temple of Amun.
The Temple of Dendur, in the background, was built during the reign of Augustus Caesar in the Roman period.
The room in the Metropolitan museum is quite excellent with a huge window looking into Central Park.
See more photos of my visit to the Met. And more photos around NYC. And photos from my trip to Egypt.
Related: Statue of King Mankaure and His Queen (Egypt) – Egyptian Hieroglyphs at the Met in NYC
Borobudur is an amazing Buddhist temple built in the 9th century. This site is well worth a visit. It is located outside Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia. I have posted more photos and a video from my visit to the Borobudur Buddhist temple site, which is a world heritage site.
Borobudur includes 504 Buddha statues. I didn’t notice the bat in this photo, when I was visiting.
I did notice this lizard.
Banteay Srei temple, Cambodia. The temple is an another amazing temple in the vicinity of Siem Reap, Cambodia. Banteay Srei is fairly small, but I was definitely very glad I took a day trip (1/2 day really) from Siem Reap to here and Kbal Spean.
Related: Angkor Wat – Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, USA – Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand
Statue of King Mankaure (also know as Mycerimus) and his queen (probably Kha_merer-nebty II) from the great Ancient Egyptian art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Related: Curious Cat Egypt travelogue – Egyptian art at the MET in NYC
