“He’s like the bouncer of Buddhism.”
Curator Sinéad Vilbar on the twelfth-century statue of Fudō Myōō, a Buddhist deity whose name means “immovable.”
Stubborn
Sinéad Vilbar
2 min. watch
Contributors
Sinéad Vilbar
Assistant Curator, Department of Asian Art
Assistant Curator, Department of Asian Art
Photography by Paul Lachenauer
Art Mentioned
Japan
12th century
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