A bronze
copy the
Buddha image
at the
Lawkananda Zedi in Sittwe, in
Myanmar's Rakhine State, previously
known as Arakan. Its surface is completely
covered with
bas-reliefs
of countless smaller Buddha
images, apart for the face. These
embossed images, akin to a style of
Radiating Avalokitesvara
(fig.),
are believed to represent the
bodhisattva's
chadok or
jataka, i.e.
his previous
incarnations, in
Myanmar
said to total 550. |