This bronze sculpture represents Bhaishajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha. He holds a medicine bowl (patra) in his left hand displaying the gesture of meditation (dhyana mudra). His right hand holds a myrobalan fruit, which is believed to have medicinal properties. The Buddha is adorned with copious jewelry and wears a distinctive crown composed of a circlet of openwork foliate appendages with a high chignon and jewel finial. The stylized crown form is said to be derived from the flowing ribbons attached to crowns in the Pala Dynasty of Eastern India (750–1161) and, thence, the art of Bagan (Pagan), Burma in the 9th-13th centuries. Crowned seated Buddhas of this type are popularly called Jambupati (Lord of the Rose Apple) in Burma and Thailand. Unknown in Indian sources, it relates to the story of the skeptical Indian king Jambupati who the Buddha awed and converted by manifesting in the sumptuous royal garb of a Universal Monarch (chakravartin). He is seated on a throne in the form of lotus base and multitiered pedestal. The structure of the throne is similar to that of M.78.129. A comparable image is in the British Museum, London (1969,0211.1).

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