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Waujeongsa temple - Statuettes of arhats

Waujeongsa temple - Statuettes of arhats

Note, at the top, Buddha about to come in Nirvana. These arhats are disciples of Buddha. 500 arhats reportedly went near Buddha before he entered the Nirvana and the latter pointed to 16 of them to keep on spreading his teaching.
The statuettes of different color (brown) would be perhaps these disciples but there are 18...