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Enthroned Planetary Deity
Not on view
This sculpture and its companion (cat. no. 156) are guardian figures recovered from the Mahayana Buddhist monastery of Dong Duong, located about thirty miles south of Da Nang. The temple complex was dedicated in 875 by the Cham king Jaya Indravarman II to a syncretic deity named in the foundation inscription as Laksmindra Lokeshvara. Four such sculptures are known, all recovered from small shrines in the western precinct of the monastery. The monastery was configured around three large courtyards, each accessed through a gateway (gopura) watched over by spectacular guardians (dvarapala). The principal entrance faced east.
cat. no. 155
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