{"id":1647,"date":"2014-07-08T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2014-07-08T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T19:06:10","slug":"khotanese-maitreya-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2014\/07\/08\/khotanese-maitreya-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Khotanese Maitreya head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a beautiful <a title=\"Khotanese Buddha head at the Tokyo National Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnm.jp\/uploads\/r_collection\/LL_C0043075.jpg\">Khotanese Buddha<\/a> (or bodhisattva) piece at the <a title=\"Khotanese Buddha head\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnm.jp\/modules\/r_collection\/index.php?controller=other&amp;colid=TC456&amp;t=search\">Tokyo Museum<\/a>, presumably from one of the <a title=\"Count Otani\" href=\"http:\/\/idp.bl.uk\/pages\/collections_jp.a4d\">Otani expeditions<\/a>, dated to the 3rd-4th century. If that dating is accurate, it would be very old, especially for a metal work. I don&#8217;t recognize it as similar to anything I know about from Khotan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2014\/07\/Head_of_Buddha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1651\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2014\/07\/Head_of_Buddha-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Head_of_Buddha\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2014\/07\/Head_of_Buddha-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/files\/2014\/07\/Head_of_Buddha-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cord around the topknot is distinctive: it looks like Gandharan bodhisattva hairdos to me, perhaps representing Maitreya. The urna with the eight (presumably) jewels is likewise distinctive. More than anything, to me it looks like someone&#8217;s portrait, with the prominent nose and the jutting chin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a beautiful Khotanese Buddha (or bodhisattva) piece at the Tokyo Museum, presumably from one of the Otani expeditions, dated to the 3rd-4th century. If that dating is accurate, it would be very old, especially for a metal work. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2014\/07\/08\/khotanese-maitreya-head\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-qz","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}