Identification of Mahayana Sculptures fromI Padidora, Mawanella

Narangoda, P.

dc.contributor.author	Narangoda, P.
dc.date.accessioned	2015-05-18T06:02:30Z
dc.date.available	2015-05-18T06:02:30Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.identifier.citation	Narangoda, Prashanthi, 2007. Identification of Mahayana Sculptures fromI Padidora, Mawanella, Proceedings of the Annual Research Symposium 2007, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, pp 44.	en_US
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dc.identifier.uri	http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/7515
dc.description.abstract	Ten gilt-bronze sculptures, some of which were supposed to be representing Mahayana deities, discovered from Padidora. Mawanella in the district of Kegallc in the year 2006 were studied, The objective of the study is to re-examine and re-define the iconographical attributes of the findings. Those sculptures were previously identified by a team of archaeologists from the Department of Archaeology as representing Avalokithesvara Natha, the most popular deity in Mahayana Buddhism. The present study is based on canonical and literary references from Silpa Texts, SadhanaMala and Nispannayogavali and others, I was able to identify five statues as representing Samadhi Buddha, one Maitreya Bodhisattva, one Sudhana Kumara and two Tara of which the last four representing the most popular deities of the Mahayana pantheon of Sri Lanka	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Kelaniya	en_US
dc.title	Identification of Mahayana Sculptures fromI Padidora, Mawanella	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US