Prajnaparamita
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Prajnaparamita
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Published 2018-11-14T17:15:32+00:00
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Prajnāpāramitā, the Goddess of Transcendent Wisdom, is a personification of a holy text by the same name. In Tantric Buddhism, Prajnāpāramitā is believed to be the mother of all buddhas. In Cambodia, where this sculpture was made, the identities of god and ruler blurred during the rule of King Jayavarman VII (r.1181–1215), who made Buddhism the official state religion. He identified his mother with Prajnāpāramitā and similarly represented himself as the Buddha, so that sculptures possessed a dual function of representing the divine and the ruler’s divine power.
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This object was scanned by The Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Technical Information
| Date published | 14/11/2018 |
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| Title | Prajnaparamita |
| Date | late 12th-13th century |
| Dimension | 130.81cm x 38.1cm x 20.96cm |
| Accession | 97.105 |
| Medium | Grey sandstone |
| Credit | The John R. Van Derlip Fund |
| Record | https://collections.artsmia.org/art/5160/prajnaparamita-cambodia |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Object Parts
Printed for the “Great Goddess Bar and Grill” art piece in “The Goddess Show” at the Belmar (NJ) Arts Center.