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 with Amitabha Buddha's avatar inside a flaming limbus. The youthful Bodhisattva of Wisdom is seated in a diamond position on a double lotus pedestal. He displays the Vitarka Mudra (Teaching Gesture) in his left hand, with a stack of Prajnaparamita Sutra on a lotus by his shoulder. In his raised right hand, a wisdom sword with the blade is now missing. Nevertheless, it hardly deters us from noticing the Bodhisattva's vigorous spirit, and the serenity of the God of Literature as a handsome young man with eyes gazing in the bliss of meditation. Despite its centuries-old condition, this immaculately cast iron statue is well preserved in gilt and polychrome with minimal surface corrosion. The figure is stylistically a rare Qing dynasty prototype in accordance with Tibetan traditions.