Question
This figure’s “heavenly multitude” is replaced with music-playing aliens in a 1996 work of 3D video art. Six tiny statues of this figure stand on a wire that extends out of the mouth of a bald man with an antler-topped walking staff in a naturalistic 13th-century sculpture. Silken cords were often attached to sculptures of this figure, who stands on swirling clouds with 25 attendants in paintings from the “Welcoming Descent” genre. Multiple artisans carved small parts of this figure’s (*) gold-leaf-covered sculpture at Phoenix Hall in the first use of the “joined-wood,” or yosegi, technique invented by Jōchō. Heian-era raigo paintings depict this figure bringing dying devotees to a world also depicted in Diamond Realm mandalas. For 10 points, name this figure depicted in the Great Buddha of Kamakura and other sculptures of Pure Land Buddhism. ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 14 | 100% | 7% | 29% | 124.57 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Tracy Mirkin | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 61 | -5 |
Will Alston | LMM's LLM MLM | The Empire Bikes Back | 72 | 15 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | We Need New Names | 73 | -5 |
Stephen Liu | Lisan al-Quib | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 80 | -5 |
Emmett Laurie | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 104 | -5 |
Robert Wang | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Lisan al-Quib | 106 | 10 |
Daniel Ma | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 112 | 10 |
Matt Weiner | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 115 | 10 |
Amogh Kulkarni | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 115 | 10 |
Dylan Minarik | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 136 | 10 |
Chris Ray | We Need New Names | BHSU B | 136 | 10 |
Jason Hong | The Jeam Team | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 136 | 10 |
Jerry Vinokurov | The Oldest Men in the World | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 136 | 10 |
Annabelle Yang | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 136 | 10 |
Alexander Nero | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | The Oldest Men in the World | 136 | 0 |
Anuttam Ramji | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 136 | 10 |
Fred Garvey | Les Missourables | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 136 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Punished "Venom" BHSU | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 136 | 10 |
Eric Chen | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 136 | 10 |