Water Ewer for Rituals (Kundika)

1100s Overall: 39.5 cm (15 9/16 in.) Source image
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Known as kundika in Sanskrit, this distinctively shaped vessel served to purify a sacred space and to invoke a deity. In Korean Buddhist art, it appears primarily as an attribute of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Gwaneum in Korean). By the 1100s, however, the kundika was used...

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