On The Antiquity of Nepalese Metalcraft: The Buddha of Guita Bahi

Figure 5: Śākyamuni Buddha:
detail, head of Buddha
The main deity of Prathama Śrī Mahāvihāra (Prathamaśrī mahāvihāra gandhurī devatā)
Cast Copper with traces of gilding,
h. of full figure approx 6 ft 8 in (Vajracarya, Herakaji, 1999, p 53)
Nepal, 542 CE (?).

Photo: Ian Alsop, Feb. 4, 2008

Detail: see thumbnail below
Detail: head of Buddha
Photo Ian Alsop July 30, 2010

Citations; Published: (with repousse covering):

Slusser, Mary Shepherd,  1982, Nepal Mandala,  two vols. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press), vol. 2 , plates 485, 486
Dīpaṇkara Buddha, copper repousse 13th c. (?)

Vajracarya, Herakaji, 1999 (N.S. 1119) Guitaḥyā Bahi Vihāra Sangh (Gustala Mahāvihāra, Prathamaśrī mahāvihāra, Vasuccaśīla Mahāvihāra chagu adyayana (A study of the Guita Bahi vihāra Sangha) (Dipavatī Putsakālaya, Guita, Patan), 2nd fig before p. 1, The main deity of Prathama Śrī Mahāvihāra (Prathamaśrī mahāvihārayā gandhurī devatā)

Michaels, Axel, 2013, " From Syncretism to Transculturality: The Dīpaṅkara Procession in the Kathmandu Valley" in Hüsken/Michaels, editors, South Asian Festivals on the Move, (Hüsken/Michaels,South Asian Festivals on the Move (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp 317-342. Fig. 2: The Guitah Dīpaṅkara Buddha at Guita Bahā, 13th cent. (photo: Manik Bajracharya, 2002)