Right hand of Buddha

ca. 550–560 · Sculpture

Can I see it?

Yes, on view now

Where is “Right hand of Buddha” now? The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 206, New York. Yes, on view now. Checked September 29, 2026.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Room206

Closed· opens at 10:00 AM

On public display.

Checked: 12 days ago
In this state since: Sep 26, 2026
Source: The museum

On the map Museum page

Details

Accession number: 30.81

What it shows

Buddha

In the catalog

Sculpture Stone China (Northern Xiangtangshan, North Cave)

Sources

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access (CC0)

In the same room · Gallery 206, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum page

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo), ca. 1319

Stele commissioned by members of a devotional society, dated 528

Stele Commissioned by Helian Ziyue (赫蓮子悅) and a Devotional Society of Five Hundred Individuals, dated 533–43

Head of a Bodhisattva, ca. early 8th century

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), late 6th–early 7th century

Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), late 6th century

Buddha, mid-6th century

Standing bodhisattva, mid- to late 6th century

On the same theme · Buddha

All works on the theme

anonymous

Head of a Buddha, 800 - 850

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Odilon Redon

De Boeddha, 1895

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Honoré Daumier

Karikatuur van een Chinees Boeddhabeeld, 1834

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Gordon Parks

Window/Mysticism, Harlem, New York, 1952

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo), ca. 1319

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

anonymous

De Boeddha tussen twee bodhisattva’s, c. 800 - c. 850

Rijksmuseum

anonymous

Staande Boeddha, c. 600 - c. 800

Rijksmuseum

anonymous

Bronze image of Amida, c. 1887 - in or before 1897

Rijksmuseum