Cleveland Museum of Art

Seated Sakyamuni Buddha

Date

500s–600s

Medium

stone

Culture

Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE)

Department

Korean Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Created during the Unified Silla period, a high point of the spread of Buddhist teachings, this kind of miniature statue was often used as a portable object of devotion by traveling Buddhist monks. This particular Buddhist statue is very similar in style and size to the one in the collection of the National Museum of Korea. See it in the following link: https://www.museum.go.kr/site/main/relic/search/view?relicId=1926 This seated Buddhist deity is Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism.

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