Google Plus brilliantly showed the bottom image of the prior blog post as the top image instead of this!
Note how in Indian art Maitreya is masculine
Now this Gupta sculpture is from a couple of centuries later!
Still male but the mo has gone and if you've seen Khmer or Thai images of Maitreya you can see the links and the beginnings of a succession of changes to later versions in SE Asia and China
Next time back to China!
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