Miroku 弥勒 (Sanskrit, Maitreya) is the future Buddha, alternatively depicted as a bodhisattva (bosatsu 菩薩) as in the famous example above from Kōryū-ji [広隆寺] in Kyōto. More to come.
This image is from a beautiful small book, "Handbook of Korean Art - Buddhist Sculpture" by Youngsook Pak & Roderick Whitfiel, Laurence King Publishing, London, 2003.
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