The Badulla Preaching Buddha Statue is currently on display in the Colombo National Museum. It is considered a rare piece of work found in Sri Lanka.
Badulla Preaching Buddha Statue (Colombo Museum)
The Badulla Preaching Buddha Statue (Sinhala: බදුල්ල දහම් දෙසන බුදුරුව) is a bronze Buddha statue discovered from somewhere in Badulla, Sri Lanka. It is currently on display in
the Anuradhapura Gallery of Colombo National Museum . This statue is regarded as a rare specimen of ancient Sri Lankan sculptural art. However, some consider this statue as a product of South-East Asia (Chutiwongs et al., 2007).
This hollow cast bronze statue of Buddha is 54.5 cm in height and was presented to the museum by G. F. K. Horsfall (Coomaraswamy, 1914). The Statue The Buddha statue cast in cire-perdue is of thin texture and is damaged to some extent at the belly (Chutiwongs et al., 2007). Seated in Virasana posture, the image shows an attitude of preaching/teaching Dhamma (Chutiwongs et al., 2007). The slightly raised right hand depicts the Vitarka Mudra [(argumentation gesture) Chutiwongs et al., 2007; Wikramagamage, 1990]. While holding the gathered pleats of the robe, the left hand is in the pose of…
