Dhyani-Bodhisattva
Unidentified Greco-Bactrian, Gandhara Kingdom maker
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
Art History 38.01, Asian Socieites, Cultures, and Languages 70.01, Sacred Architecture of Asia, Seher Argawala, Fall 2024
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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