| Abstract: |
This article presents in detail a study of a particular type of Buddha image, those seated in <i>bhadrāsana</i>, that is the posture with both legs extended and the feet firmly planted on the ground or on a lotus pedestal. There are few of these seated Buddha images left from the first millennium CE compared to the large corpus of Buddhas seated crossed-legged or standing images. However, this iconography is often found albeit not only in central Thailand during the commonly labelled art or period of Dvāravatī (ca 7<sup>th</sup>-8<sup>th</sup> c.), one of Thailands oldest religious and artistic cultures.
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