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Buddha Granting Boons
Not on view
The Buddha makes the gesture of granting favors and blessings to devotees and stands on a lotus pedestal to evoke his transcendent nature. The sculpture’s findspot is connected by the Tonle Sap lake and river system to Angkor Borei and the Mekong River, so it could have been produced anywhere in southern Cambodia and transported to Kampong Speu Province. Stylistically, several factors indicate close connections with the workshops of Angkor Borei and an awareness of Buddha imagery produced in the seventh-century Mon territories of central Thailand.
cat. no. 50
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