Yes, I am pretty sure this is from the "new" temple at Amaravati, with a big sitting Buddha on top of it.

On Jun 24, 2016 4:33 PM, "Jonathan Silk" <kauzeya@gmail.com> wrote:
I hope I will be excused for saying that I wonder whether this is really from Amaravati; the condition seems extraordinary without a single even slight chip. Moreover, the surface, in the photo, looks rather much more like clay than stone. I may of course be wrong, but I'm suspicious of it even being old at all.

Jonathan Silk

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei@uchicago.edu> wrote:
This is pure speculation, but I imagine it that it could be the scene of the enlightened
Buddha's receiving the honor of Kapilavastu when he returns to preach in his native land.
This is described, for instance, in AśvaghoSa's Saundarananda. But it may be another
similar theme of the Buddha being honored by lay devotees elsewhere.

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Pro
fessor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago



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