Statue of Marici with Painted Face

Description

The Statue of Marici is made by the process of the lost wax system by the skill full artist from Patan. Marici is a deva or bodhisattva associated with light and the sun.

The lost wax system is the oldest process of making metal sculptures. This is a very long and time-consuming process but the result we get is a worth the time and effort.

Nepal is probably the only country still manufacturing the statue by this process. The statue of Marici above is 100% handmade in Nepal.

Marici, in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, is a deva or bodhisattva associated with light and the sun. She is known as Molizhitian or Molizhitian Pusa in China, Marishi-ten in Japan, and ozer Chenma in Tibet.

She is one of the 20 (or 24) Celestials. In Taoism and Chinese folk religion, Marici is known under the epithet Doumu, a name sometimes used by Buddhists.

Marici is usually depicted in one of the following ways:

1. As a beautiful woman on an open lotus, the lotus itself sometimes perched on the back of seven sows
2. As a ferocious wrathful deity perched on the back of a boar
3. Riding a fiery chariot pulled by seven savage boars or sows
4. As a multi-armed woman with a different weapon in each hand standing or sitting on the back of a boar
5. She has been depicted with one, three, five or six faces and two, six, eight, ten or twelve arms; three eyes; in her many-faced manifestations one of her faces is that of a sow