Dhyani-Bodhisattva

Unidentified Greco-Bactrian, Gandhara Kingdom maker

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144-241

Stone

Overall: 11 in. (27.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Anonymous gift in honor of D. H. Beskind, Class of 1936

S.960.105.2

Geography

Place Made: Pakistan, South Asia, Asia

Period

1-500

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Course History

ASCL 51.06/REL 41.07, Buddhism Sex, Gender in South East Asia, Sara Swenson, Spring 2022

HIST 96.01, Colonialism and Culture in Asia and Africa, Douglas Haynes, Spring 2022

REL 43.01, Buddhism in America, Reiko Ohnuma, Spring 2022

Exhibition History

Anthropology of Religion, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 48, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 2, 2004.

Figural Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, SArt 16, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 3 - October 23, 1994.

Provenance

Anonymous donor; given to present collection, 1960.

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