Seiryoji-style Buddha

Japanese: 清凉寺式釈迦 - せいりょうじしきしゃか

This Buddhist statue imitates the style of the Shaka Nyorai statue at Seiryoji Temple. The original statue was made by Chōsen, who traveled to Song China, who had a copy of a Shaka Nyorai statue said to have come from India at Kaiyuan Temple in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, which he then brought back to Japan in 987. It was widely worshipped in India as the fundamental statue and a statue from the Three Kingdoms, and many copies were made during the Kamakura period. The statue's distinctive feature is the striking parallel robe patterns in the Gandhara style. Existing examples include the standing Shaka Nyorai statues at Saidaiji Temple and Toshodaiji Temple.

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Japanese:

清凉寺の釈迦如来像の形式を模した仏像。原像は，入宋した【ちょう】然(ちょうねん)が浙江省台州開元寺のインド伝来と伝える釈迦像を現地で模刻させ，987年日本に持ち帰ったもの。インドにおける根本の像，三国伝来の像として盛んに信仰され，鎌倉時代には多くの模像を生んだ。像の特色はガンダーラ式の著しい平行衣文。現存作例は西大寺や唐招提寺の釈迦如来立像など。

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