Half-lotus Posture

Half-lotus Posture (Jiejia Fuzuo) is of incised inscription and thick relief. Behind the statue there is auspicious Buddhist light. Its right hand holds the Wuwei Seal (Impavidity Seal), which implies the meaning of “Turn the magic ring to ease anything”. The fact that the Buddha statue appeared in the cliff tombs shows that the people had already begun to have a belief in giving the statues respect as Gods during the Han Dynasty. Buddhism was introduced into China in the Han Dynasty, but the earliest Buddha statue appeared in the cliff tombs of the Han Dynasty in Leshan, which demonstrates that the transmission of the Buddhism in Leshan was no later than that in other places. Maybe it came along with the merchants on the way of the “Southwest Silk Road”. It was a rare material for the research of cultural communication between China and India and the Buddhist history of China.

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