Full dress

Jimmy Kang, on April 10, 2009, said:

Dressed up like a deity. When you add decorating features on a Buddha image, this is what it turns out to be. Headdress, princely jewellery, cloths, etc plus deco of the surrounding. This is an 800 years old bronze Buddha image at the golden temple in Patan. It is quite common in Nepal to dress up their deities in temples and shrines. So much so sometime it is difficult to tell whether an image is a Syakamuni Buddha or other deities such as Tara. If you ask anyone, they will say it is Buddha, but the Nepalese and tibetian accord many of their saints with the name Buddha, can be very confusing. In Burma too.