The name Manjushri in Chinese is Wen Chu. He is popularly regarded as the Bodhisattva of Wisdom throughout Asia. As depicted here, this 19th century Qing period Manjushri is wearing a five-pronged crown, above which a small Amitabha Buddha seated inside a flaming limbus. The youthful Bodhisattva of Wisdom is seated in a diamond position on a double-lotus pedestal, with a Prajnaparamita Sutra on a lotus to his left, his hand is displaying the Vitarka Mudra (Teaching Gesture), and in his right hand the blade of the wisdom sword is now missing; which hardly deters us from noticingthe Bodhisattva's vigorous spirit, and the serenity of the God of Literature as a handsome young man, who steadily gazing downward in the bliss of meditation. The beautifully Chinese cast statue is a prototype in accordance with centuries-old Tibetan traditions. It is an immaculate iron statue attributed to the 18th to early 19th century.