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White-Robed Guanyin

白衣觀音

late 1200s–early 1300s

copy after Jueji Yongzhong 絕際永中

(Chinese, active around 1300)
inscription by

Zhongfeng Mingben 中峰明本

(Chinese, 1263–1323)
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Culture
China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Medium
hanging scroll; ink and gold on silk
Measurements
Painting: 80.7 x 25.7 cm (31 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.); Overall with knobs and cord: 168.2 x 44.5 cm (66 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1978.47.2
Public Domain
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The bodhisattva's face and halo were delicately painted in gold.

Description

The original model for this ink drawing of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion (Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit), is CMA 1978.47.1. This drawing is a later copy with the same image of the White-Robed Guanyin, but in reverse. The inscription above reads: one of the 84,000 painted by the priest Insei.

The inscription seems to indicate that the Japanese priest Insei repeatedly copied the image of the bodhisattva in an act of piety and to accumulate merit, as is promised in the Lotus Sutra for anyone who paints images of the Buddha, they “will achieve the Buddha path.” The priest’s name and seal need further study and identification.

White-Robed Guanyin

late 1200s–early 1300s

Jueji Yongzhong, Zhongfeng Mingben

(Chinese, active around 1300), (Chinese, 1263–1323)
China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)

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