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Bimaran Casket. British Museum. Personal photograph 2005.

Français : Reliquaire (prov. stupa de Bimaran), N-O Gandhara. Maitreya de face, les cheveux au vent, portant le dhoti, un cordon attaché à son épaule droite et portant des bracelets. Il est encadré par des figures nimbées de profil faisant le signe d'hommage (anjali mudrā) à Buddha (visible sur l'autre face). Ces deux figures ont été identifiées comme étant Sakra et Brahma. Or et grenats, H. 6,5 cm. Vers 50 de notre ère . Page du [1] British Museum.

Reference : Gérard Fussman and Anna Maria Quagliotti, The early iconography of Avalokitesvara : L'iconographie ancienne d'Avalokitesvara, Collège de France, Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation indienne. Paris, Diffusion De Boccard, 2012. ISBN 978-2-86803-080-1. Page 35 : in english, quotation from the text of Gérard Fussman : "These images are some of the first created, Avalokitesvara is depicted without the laksana-s, because they were not yet needed to identify him, and probably because these laksana-s were not yet devised."


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Detail of a Bodhisattva on the Bimaran Casket, eastern Afghanistan, mid-1st century CE. British Museum, London

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