Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde 2014 – Amida Nyorai

“This is the Celestial Buddha of the West, the Buddha of Infinite Light, of the setting sun and of afterlife. He resides in the Western Pure Land, not so much a real place but rather a state of mind in which we are reborn, freed from the suffering in this world. He has the hands folded in meditation, the dhyane mudra. From the inscription on the base, we know that the statue was consecrated on the 15th day of the 6th month of Shōtoku 6, 1716.”

From the sign in the museum.