19th Century Burmese Standing Monk Statue

19th Century Burmese Standing Monk Statue

HEIGHT: 65cm
WIDTH: 18cm
DEPTH:: 16cm
WEIGHT: 11.85 kg.
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Shan marble gilded 19th Century Burmese Standing Monk Statue dressed in a simple monks robe, holding an alms bowl with both hands. The fingernails and toenails. are painted pink, and decorated with a panel of thayo lacquer floral scrolls running down the front of the robe and again on the lapel, and edges of the robe.

In Burma a young man is expected by his family to enter the monastery for a short period of time, sometimes more than once, to study the Tipitaka, the sacred scriptures pertaining to the rules, regulations, and principles taught by the Buddha (Tipitaka in Pali “Ti” meaning three and “Pitaka” baskets). Some of these young boys will become fully-fledged monks whilst others will leave to resume their ordinary day-to-day living.
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