Gallery: North Cave at Northern Xiangtangshan

Seated Bodhisattva

Freer Gallery of Art
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
F1913.5
Kneeling Winged Monster

Freer Gallery of Art
Transfer from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
F1977.9
Left Hand of Maitreya

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Transfer from the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
B69 S37

A 1922 photograph of the seated Buddha of the Future shows that this hand, which holds the looped end of his robe, was still in place. At that time, the tips of the two raised fingers were broken off, but these fragments appear to have been recovered and reattached.