It seemed that the mason who carved those sculptures tried to show all kinds of feelings in Human. In my guess, the mason must’ve been an one man. All of these hundreds of stone arhats looked slightly different each other. In this exhibition, it looked liked that more than hundred sculptures were displayed in the room. In my guess, many of them were missing util having been excavated. So relatively well preserved sculptures seemed to be displayed in this exhibition.
I could not imagine to differentiate human face expressions into 5 hundreds kinds. Looking at these sculptures, I was curious we human could make such a many expressions with our small face.
In my view, every faces of arhats were slightly different each other. To make this slight difference, only one man could classify each other.
The mason tried to express all of human feelings, in this post I’d like introduce some of sculptures among them.
In my guess, the expressions below looked like
a smile, but not ordinary smile. This arhat loved to joke, may be.
It looked like a grief ?
a satisfaction with something in his hands ?
This arhat seemed to meditate.
