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Museum treasure 12~Bodhisattva Statue with Cicada Crown,5.Shandong Museum, China #253145431
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Unearthed in Boxing County, Shandong Province in 1976, it is a stone Buddha statue from the Eastern Wei Dynasty to the Northern Qi Dynasty in ancient China.About 1500 years ago. The statue of Bodhisattva is exquisitely carved, beautiful in shape, kind and wise in face, elegant in clothes and smooth in decoration. The cicada pattern decoration on the crown of Bodhisattva is particularly eye-catching, and it is also known as the `Oriental Venus` due to the loss of both arms. Buddhist cicadas are crowned with the cycle of life and death of cicadas, which expresses the Buddhist concept of reincarnation.
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