Answer the following question in 3-4 complete sentences. Name and describe the sculpture above. What school of thought is this sculpture a part of?

Answer:

This sculpture is of the Buddha seated in the lotus position (padmasana) with his right hand raised in the abhaya mudra (gesture of fearlessness/protection) and his left hand resting on his knee. Smaller attendant figures stand beside him while celestial beings fly overhead, and narrative scenes appear at the base. The work belongs to the early Indian Buddhist school of thought (likely from the Mathura or Kushan-period Buddhist artistic tradition).