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The following is a list of statues of Siddhartha Gautama and other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas by country of origin.

India

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Image Statue Name Depicts Location Date Reference
Buddha Preaching his First Sermon Gautama Buddha Sarnath Museum, Uttar Pradesh[a] 5th Century CE [1]
Buddha Statue of Hyderabad Gautama Buddha Gibraltar Rock, Hussain Sagar, Hyderabad, Telangana December 1, 1992 [2]
Buddha statue of Vasudeva I Gautama Buddha Government Museum, Mathura, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh c. 220 CE [3]
Dhyana Buddha statue Gautama Buddha Amaravathi, Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh 2015 [4]
Great Buddha Gautama Buddha Bodh Gaya, Bihar November 18, 1982 [5]

Japan

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† Blue – Group of Buddha statues
Image Statue Name Depicts Location Date Reference
Amida-dō Stone Buddha Amida Nyōrai Minamisōma, Fukushima Prefecture, Tōhoku region Heian period
Asuka Great Buddha Gautama Buddha Takaichi District, Nara Prefecture Early 17th century [6]
Gifu Great Buddha Unknown Shōhō-ji, Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture April 1832 [7]
Hōgyū Jizō† Various bodhisattvas, mainly Jizō Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu 1722-1732 [8]
Inukai Stone Buddhas† Fudō Myōō Bungo-Ōno, Ōita Prefecture, Kyushu Kamakura period [9]
Kamagaya Great Buddha Unknown Kamagaya, Chiba Prefecture November 1776 [10]
Kannon-dō Stone Buddha Kannon Minamisōma, Fukushima Prefecture, Tōhoku region Heian period
Koa Kannon Kannon Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Chūbu region 1940
Komasaka Stone Buddhas† Amida Nyōrai,Kannon Bosatsu, Seishi Bosatsu Rittō, Shiga Prefecture, Kansai region Nara period [11]
Kumano Magaibutsu† Dainichi Nyōrai, Fudō Myōō Bungotakada, Ōita Prefecture, Kyushu Heian period [12]
Moto-Hakone Stone Buddhas† Twenty-six bodhisattvas Hakone, Kanagawa prefecture, Kantō region Late Kamakura period [13]
Ogatamiyasako East Stone Buddhas† Fudō Myōō, Jikokuten, Nyorai, Bishamonten, Niō Bungo-Ōno, Ōita Prefecture, Kyushu Heian or Kamakura period [14]
Ogatamiyasako West Stone Buddhas† Shaka Nyorai (Gautama Buddha), Amida Nyorai,

Yakushi Nyorai

Bungo-Ōno, Ōita Prefecture, Kyushu Heian period [14]
Sendai Daikannon Kannon Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Tōhoku region September 1, 1991
Yakushi-dō Stone Buddha Yakushi Nyōrai, other Buddhas and two bodhisattvas Minamisōma, Fukushima Prefecture, Tōhoku region Heian period

Notes

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  1. ^ Discovered in Sarnath before being put in the Sarnath Museum.

References

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  1. ^ Eck, Diana L. (1982), Banāras, City of Light, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, p. 63, ISBN 0-394-51971-X, In the most famous of these images in the Sarnath museum, the Buddha sits cross-legged, his limbs in the perfect proportions prescribed by the iconometry of the day, his hands in a teaching pose, his eyes downcast, half-shut in meditation, his head backed by a beautifully ornamented circular nimbus
  2. ^ Coll, Steve (9 April 1990). "Buddha of the Lake Bottom". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  3. ^ Sharma, R.C. (1994). The Splendour of Mathura Art and Museum. D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd. p. 140.
  4. ^ "Dhyana Buddha project: a lone man's crusade". The Hindu. 2011-11-13. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  5. ^ "Buddhist devotees participate in 20th anniversary celebrations of Buddha statue in Gaya". Thaindian News. 22 November 2007. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Database of National Cultural Properties". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 23 December 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
  7. ^ "Gifu Great Buddha". Gifu Convention and Visitors Bureau.
  8. ^ Yashushi Takada (1998). 平成肥後国誌下 放牛地蔵 [Heisei Higo Historical Encyclopedia, Hogyu Jizo] (in Japanese). Kumamoto: Heisei Higo Kokushi Publishing Committee. pp. 1123–1155.
  9. ^ Isomura, Yukio; Sakai, Hideya (2012). (国指定史跡事典) National Historic Site Encyclopedia. 学生社. ISBN 4311750404.(in Japanese)
  10. ^ "Kamagaya Great Buddha". Yokoso! Japan. English & Japanese. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  11. ^ "狛坂磨崖仏" (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  12. ^ "熊野磨崖仏 附元宮磨崖仏及び鍋山磨崖仏" (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs.
  13. ^ 箱根の石仏群について [About the Stone Buddhas of Hakone] (in Japanese). Hakone Town. Archived from the original on 25 June 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  14. ^ a b "緒方宮迫東石仏" (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs.
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