The Eighteen Arhats gilt Bornze Statues with beautiful postures of praying with Qing period mark. The Eighteen Arhats gilt Bornze Statues with beautiful postures of praying with Qianlong Period Mark. The Eighteen Arhats (Chinese:十八羅漢, Pin Yin as Luohan) are depicted in Mahayana Buddhism as the original followers of the Buddha who have followed the Eightfold Path and attained the Four Stages of Enlightenment. They have reached the state of Nirvana and are free of worldly cravings. They are charged to protect the Buddhist faith and to await on earth for the coming of Maitreya, a prophesied enlightened Buddha to arrive on earth many millennia after Gautama Buddha's death and nirvana.The Qianlong Emperor was a great admirer of the Luohans and during his visit to see the paintings in 1757, Qianlong not only examined them closely but he also wrote a eulogy to each Luohan image. Copies of these eulogies were presented to the monastery and preserved. In 1764, Qianlong ordered that the paintings held at the Shengyin Monastery be reproduced and engraved onto stone tablets for preservation. These were mounted like facets into a marble stupa for public display. The temple was destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion but copies of ink rubbing of the steles were preserved in and outside of China.

The name of the Eighteen Arhats:

1.Pindola the Bharadvaja(Sanskrit: Pindolabharadrāja)(Chinese: 賓度羅跋羅墮闍尊者);

2. Kanaka the Vatsa(Sanskrit: Kanakavatsa)(Chinese: 迦諾迦伐蹉尊者);

3. Kanaka the Bharadvaja (Sanskrit: Kanakabharadrāja)(Chinese: 迦諾迦跋釐堕闍尊者);

4. Nandimitra (Chinese: 蘇頻陀尊者);

5.Nakula(Sanskrit: Nakula/Pakula)(Chinese: 諾距羅尊者);

6.Bodhidharma (Chinese: 跋陀羅尊者);

7. Kalika(Sanskrit: Kālika)(Chinese: 迦理迦尊者);

8. Vijraputra(Chinese: 伐闍羅弗多尊者);

9. Gobaka(Chinese: 戌博迦尊者);

10. Pantha the Elder (Sanskrit:Panthaka)(Chinese: 半托迦尊者);

11. Rahula(Sanskrit: Rāhula)(Chinese: 羅怙羅尊者);

12. Nagasena (Sanskrit: Nāgasena)(Chinese: 那迦犀那尊者);

13. Angida(Chinese: 因揭陀尊者);

14. Vanavasa(Sanskrit: Vanavāsa)(Chinese: 伐那婆斯尊者);

15. Asita(Chinese: 阿氏多尊者);

16. Pantha the Younger (Chinese: 注茶半托迦尊者);

17. Nantimitolo (Chinese: 慶友尊者);

18. Pindola(Chinese: 賓頭廬尊者).

Dimension: H 30cm.

This is same lot 196B, If a bidder wins Lot 196A, also wins 196B.

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