This large standing Buddha Shakyamuni was made during the Pagan period during a major florescence of Burmese art. It is a rare extant image made of wood in a style more commonly associated with contemporaneous copper alloy and stone representations. He has the standard iconographic features of snail-curl hair and elongated earlobes. His right hand is held in the gesture of reassurance (abhaya mudra). His left hand is a replacement that is extended with the palm turned upward. The original hand likely held the hem of his robe. Radiocarbon analyses date the head to 1100-1250 and the separately made body to 668-962 CE, suggesting that the overall sculpture was created at the time the head was carved with a body made from a much older tree. (Brown 2013, Artibus Asiae 73:1, pp. 220-222, figs. 1-2)

• Brown, Robert L.  2013.  Three wood Buddha sculptures from Myanmar (Burma) in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Artibus Asiae 73(1): 219-29.

• Brown, Robert L. Southeast Asian Art at LACMA: An Online Scholarly Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013. Accessed June 25, 2024. http://seasian.catalog.lacma.org/.

• Little, Stephen, Tushara Bindu Gude, Karina Romero Blanco, Silvia Seligson, Marco Antonio Karam. Las Huellas de Buda. Ciudad de México : Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2018.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992,  vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).

• Brown, Robert L. "Selections From the Southeast Asian Art Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 38 (3): 75-87 (May-June 2008)