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The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is an early statue of the Buddha discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi in ancient Gandhara in modern day Pakistan, that dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD. It is now in room 33 of the British Museum.〔(Seated Buddha from Gandhara ), British Museum Highlights, accessed July 2010〕 Statues of the "enlightened one" were not made until the 1st century CE, before that Buddha was represented by aniconic symbols such as his footprint.〔 Like other Gandharan, or Greco-Buddhist art, the statue shows influence from Ancient Greek art, as the region had been part of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom established by Alexander the Great. ==Description== The statue was carved in schist, allowing very fine detect , even down to fingernails. The pose, which was to become one of a number of standard ones, shows Buddha as a teacher setting the wheel of Dharma in motion (Dharmachakra Mudrā). Buddha did this following his enlightenment and after delivering his first sermon at the deer park at Sarnath〔 near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The statue was made in the 2nd or 3rd century and although Buddha lived in the 4th century before Christ this is still a quite early statue. Statues of the "enlightened one" were not made until the 1st century AD. For the first four hundred years after his death Buddha was represented by symbols alone such as his footprint.〔(Seated Buddha ), History of the World in 100 Objects, BBC, accessed July 2010〕 This statue was used as the inspiration of a BBC Radio 4 programme in the series called ''A History of the World in 100 Objects'' in May 2010. The programme discussed the change that allowed Buddha to be represented by a statue instead of as previously by symbols alone.〔(Seated Buddha from Gandhara ), BBC Radio 4, accessed July 2010〕 The figure of the Buddha is shown on a cushion on a throne or platform. On the front of the throne there are much smaller figures of a ''bodhisattva'' with a turban and halo, flanked by kneeling figures of a male and female probably representing donor portraits of a couple who paid for the statue.〔(Collection database, British Museum )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seated Buddha from Gandhara」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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