Buddha with Bird Nest: sculpture

Here’s the first version of this sculpture, a steel and bronze Buddha, supported by the three cylinders of wisdom (perhaps a reference to the Diamond Sutra scroll books), sitting on a stone.

The new version of this artwork is below, deeper into the thread:

Buddha also appears in my Beautiful Evidence (at page 87) in the discussion of the Diamond Sutra:

Photographs by Andrei Severny.