Crowned Buddha

North Library, Angkor Vat
Bronze, 79 cm (2'7")
2d half of the 12th century
National Museum of Cambodia

Images of the Crowned Buddha are, in some sense, iconographically incorrect - the Buddha should canonically be portrayed as a simple monk, whereas the Bodhisattvas are depicted with crowns and jewelled robes - but nevertheless, in 11th-12th century Pagan and Angkor, the Buddha could be adorned with crowns and jewels, a murti that ultimately derives from 9th-10th century Nalanda (Wibke Lobo, Millennium of Glory, p. 270).