Eastern Wei Dynasty or later The stele of pointed arched form, carved in high relief with a figure of Shakyamuni Buddha standing in the centre flanked by two bodhisattvas, his right hand raised in the peace-giving gesture abhaya mudra, the left lowered to his side, clad in long and thin robes falling over the shoulders and looping across the body in multiple folds, the head framed by a circular halo decorated with multiple whorls, all beneath a smaller seated figure of Amithaba Buddha flanked by six flying apsaras, stand. 96cm high (37 6/8in) high (2).