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{{Short description|Buddhist monastery in Tamil Nadu, India}}
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'''Chudamani Vihara''' was a [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[vihara]] (monastery) in [[Nagapattinam]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]. Chudamani Vihara was constructed in 1006 CE<ref name=autogenerated1>{{Cite web |url=http://www.buddhistnews.tv/current/tamil-nadu-100704.php |title=buddhist teachings hindu meditation tibetan at buddhistnews.tv |access-date=21 June 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009222827/http://www.buddhistnews.tv/current/tamil-nadu-100704.php |archive-date=9 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> by the [[Srivijaya]]n king Sri Vijaya [[Maravijayattungavarman]] with the patronage of [[Rajaraja Chola I]].<ref>Keay, John, India: A History, pp 222-223</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nio.org/past_events/archaeology/sridhar.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-10-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208135309/http://www.nio.org/past_events/archaeology/sridhar.pdf |archive-date=2007-02-08 }}</ref> The vihara building survived in dilapidated condition. Since 1856, about 350 Buddha bronzes have been found at Nagapattinam, dating from the 11th to the 16th century.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

==History==

According to the copperplate record of [[Chola]] king Rajaraja, the Sailendra king, Sri Mara-vijayottunga-varman constructed the vihara with the support of Rajaraja. The copperplate is in Leiden University (Holland). <ref>{{cite web | url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-culture/heritage/mystery-of-a-royal-grant/article6004551.ece | title=Mystery of a royal grant | date=11 May 2014 }}</ref>

One statue, now at John D. Rockefeller Collection of Asian Art in New York, has an inscription that mentions that this Buddha was created to be carried in a procession during the temple’s sacred festival. The inscription has been translated by Vidya Dehejia as:

:''Well-being [and] prosperity. The nayakar [Buddha], of all of the eighteen countries, of the metalworkers. The procession image, for the sacred festival of the [[Alvars|alvar]] temple, which was caused to be taken in procession by the respected one (utaiyar) endowed of the four gunas from Cirutavur; [in] the perum-palli (great place of worship or great vihara) of the metalworkers, [in] the perum-palli of Rajendra Chola.''<ref>[http://www.asiasocietymuseum.org/region_object.asp?RegionID=1&CountryID=1&ChapterID=7&ObjectID=520 Asia Society: The Collection In Context] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060626043704/http://www.asiasocietymuseum.org/region_object.asp?RegionID=1&CountryID=1&ChapterID=7&ObjectID=520 |date=2006-06-26 }}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book | first= John | last= Keay | year=2001 | title= India: A History | publisher= Grove Press | location= New York| isbn= 0-8021-3797-0}}

==External links==
* [http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/nies/8.html Buddha 14th century] Formerly in the collection of Mrs. W. van Hoogstraten-Fetlaer, Netherlands.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009222827/http://www.buddhistnews.tv/current/tamil-nadu-100704.php Bodhi's Tamil Afterglow] Outlook India, 7 July 2004
* [http://www.chennaimuseum.org/draft/gallery/01/05/051/budd1.htm Nagapattinam Buddhas] at the Chennai Museum
* [http://www.nortonsimon.org/collections/browse_object_type.asp?objtype=Sculpture&page=6&resultnum=68 Buddha Shakyamuni] Norton Simon Museum
* [http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_India/pages/India_9.shtml# Buddha Shakyamuni] Art Institute of Chicago
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060626043704/http://www.asiasocietymuseum.org/region_object.asp?RegionID=1&CountryID=1&ChapterID=7&ObjectID=520 procession Buddha] John D. Rockefeller Collection of Asian Art in New York
* [http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/asian/highlight_item?acc=1964.556 Buddha, 12th century]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Art Institute of Chicago
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061210184751/http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5983_1657214%2C00430014.htm Tracing the Sri Lanka-Kerala link] Hindustan Times 23 March 2006

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[[Category:Defunct Buddhist monasteries]]
[[Category:Buddhist monasteries in India]]
[[Category:Medieval Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Buddhist temples in Tamil Nadu]]

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MichaleFlint91 at 09:23, 14 March 2026