Mandalay Buddhist art, or Yadanabon style, is the last great royal tradition of Burmese Buddhist sculpture. Developed under King Mindon after the foundation of Mandalay, it combines Nyaungyan and early Konbaung traditions with a new naturalism influenced by European art. Discover the distinctive Mandalay Buddha, with its natural proportions, backward-falling elongated earlobes, richly folded robe and low throne, and learn how to distinguish royal-period works from later Manda