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Stubborn

Sinéad Vilbar
2 min. watch

“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.”

Contributors

Sinéad Vilbar
Assistant Curator, Department of Asian Art

Photography by Paul Lachenauer

Art Mentioned

Fudō Myōō (Achala Vidyaraja), Wood with lacquer, gold leaf, and color; joined-woodblock construction (yosegi-zukuri), Japan
Fudō Myōō (Achala Vidyaraja)
Japan
12th century

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