Buddha Preaching his First Sermon (Sarnath)
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The Buddha Preaching his First Sermon is a stone sculpture of the 5th-century CE showing Gautama Buddha in the "teaching posture" or dharmachakra pravartana mudrā.[2] The relief is 5' 3" tall, and was excavated at Sarnath, India by F. O. Oertel during the 1904–1905 excavation season of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI); it was found in an area to the south of the Dhamek Stupa.[1]
Buddha Preaching his First Sermon (Sarnath) | |
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Material | Sandstone |
Size | 5'3" |
Created | 5th century CE |
Discovered | Sarnath, India |
Present location | Sarnath Museum, India |
Registration | B(b)181[1] |
A product of the local Sarnath school of sculpture, it has been displayed at the Archaeological Museum at Sarnath, the first site museum of the ASI, from the time of the museum's completion in 1910. It is best known for the Buddha images showing the subject, "type considered a hallmark of the Sarnath school of Buddhist art",[2][3] and is described by Denise Leidy as "justifiably one of the most famous representations of the Buddha in Asian art",[4] and by Robert E. Fisher as "the most famous Gupta [Buddha] image".[5]