Colorful glazed statue of Wei Tuo painted in the Ming Dynasty

Colorful glazed statue of Wei Tuo painted in the Ming Dynasty

This artifact is a Bodhisattva named "Weituo", a statue from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in China. This ceramic artifact is currently housed in the National Museum of Scotland. The prototype of Weituotian is Shijiantuotian, the son of Brahmanism's Great Self in Heaven. Shijiantuo has over twenty names. In addition to Shijiantuo, common ones include Kumaraj, Kajiya, Shanfan, Nengzhou, and the Six Faced Child. The common image is a two armed young male war god, and there are also six sided images.