This 10.5″ Medicine Buddha statue presents a fully multicolored, polychrome-painted presentation with partial gold gilding on the crown, jewelry, and lotus throne details — the most visually complete of all Medicine Buddha presentations in the collection, showing his full iconographic color range simultaneously: the canonical deep blue body, red monastic robes, green upper scarf, and an elaborately jeweled Bodhisattva crown in multiple colors. This treatment closely resembles how Medicine Buddha is depicted in traditional Tibetan painted thangkas, where all his colors are visible at once. At the buyer’s request, the crown and jewels can be additionally embellished with turquoise and red coral stones at no extra charge before shipping.
The Bodhisattva crown and jewels on this statue mark it as the Sambhogakaya form of Medicine Buddha — the adorned, celestial aspect of his presence — as distinct from the simple Nirmanakaya form in monastic robes alone that the other Medicine Buddha statues in the collection depict. In Mahayana Buddhist teaching, the Sambhogakaya is the body of perfect endowment in which fully enlightened Buddhas manifest for the benefit of advanced practitioners: adorned with the five certainties (certain form, certain place, certain teaching, certain retinue, certain time), accessible through practice and devotion. The Sambhogakaya form emphasizes Medicine Buddha’s trans-historical, cosmic dimension — not only the teacher who gave the gift of healing to human beings within history, but the ever-present healing awareness that practitioners access through his mantra and visualization. Medicine Buddha practice is enhanced through recitation of his mantra — Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha — which generates merit and activates his healing blessings for oneself and others. Learn more about Medicine Buddha’s meaning and practice.
Blue Medicine Buddha Statue Features
Medicine Buddha sits in full lotus posture, his right hand in the Varada mudra — the boon-granting gesture, palm open and facing forward, draped over the right knee — reflecting his unconditional readiness to give the gift of healing to all beings. His left hand rests in the Dhyana mudra with the medicine bowl in the open palm, its three nectars healing the three poisons of greed, hatred, and ignorance at their root. The myrobalan plant rises from his right side — the king of medicinal plants in the Tibetan tradition and the emblem of his healing function. The elaborate multicolored Bodhisattva crown and jewels of this statue can be further embellished with turquoise and red coral stones on request.
Authentic, Handmade in Nepal
Every statue and ritual item is handcrafted in Patan, Nepal, using traditional lost wax casting and comes with a certificate of authenticity issued by Nepal's Department of Archaeology, verifying its materials, technique, and origin.
