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Promise of Paradise: Early Chinese Buddhist Sculpture

December 1, 2012 - Indefinitely

Museum: Freer Gallery of Art

Location: Gallery 17

The Freer's collection of stone and gilt bronze Buddhist sculptures highlights two flourishing ages, the 6th century and the High Tang (6th-8th century). The exhibition's focus is the monumental Cosmological Buddha: a life-size stone sculpture covered in intricate representations of the realms of existence, ranging from hell to the abodes of the devas (Buddhist gods).