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At a glance, a thousand years—I encountered this Sui Dynasty gilt-bronze Buddha statue at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston!

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Finally seeing this national treasure-level artifact! 🤩 🏛️ The gilt-bronze statue of the Western Pure Land by the Fan family from the 13th year of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, treasured at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is one of only three surviving gilt-bronze Pure Land statues from the Sui Dynasty! Not only is the statue itself exquisitely crafted, but its story of transmission is as thrilling as a heart-pounding artifact treasure hunt~ 【Statue Details】 ✨ The main figure, Amitabha Buddha, is solemn and dignified ✨ Flanked by two Pratyekabuddhas and two disciples ✨ The lifelike Guanyin and Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattvas hold pomegranate-shaped objects, accompanied by two guardian warriors ✨ Behind, two Bodhi trees form an arch, with seven Buddhas seated atop the leaves ✨ The tree canopy is adorned with three flying celestial beings bowing down, breathtakingly beautiful! The base is inscribed on three sides with the vow texts of eight Fan family women from the 13th year of Kaihuang (593 AD), a precious historical testimony 📜 【Legendary Journey】 1900s: Unearthed near the Zhaozhou Bridge in Hebei 🌉 1910s: Collected by late Qing Dynasty minister Duan Fang in the "Taozhai Jijin Lu" 1922: Purchased by Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz and donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1947: Six lost components were returned, restoring it to its original intact state~ Seeing this Buddha statue, one can’t help but marvel: behind every artifact lies a family’s story, a journey of wandering, and the memory of an era. How fortunate to witness this piece of Chinese civilization in a foreign land! 🥺
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