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Meta-Discourse on the Teachings from the Treasury (Abidharmakosha-Bhashya)

Meta-Discourse on the Teachings from the Treasury (Abidharmakosha-Bhashya)

1100s
Location: not on view

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The frontispiece depicts the Buddha Shakyamuni preaching in a paradisical landscape.

Description

This religious text relates some of the teachings of the great fourth-century Indian Buddhist scholar Vasubhandhu. The text analyzes human consciousness in its relationship to the environment and transformations that occur during meditation. This scroll is the 17th part of a 30-part translation of the text by Xuanzang, an eminent seventh-century Chinese monk.
  • ?–1916
    Kuroda Takuma 黒田太久馬 [1867–?], Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1916–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. Mentioned: cat. no. 26, p. 195 archive.org
    Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 11 archive.org
    Vilbar, Sinéad. "The Japanese Art Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1915-1951." In Great Waves & Mountains: Perspectives and Discoveries in Collecting the Arts of Japan. Natsu Oyobe, and Allysa B. Peyton, eds., 160–197. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 169, fig. 7.8
  • Japanese Religious Art (Japanese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2021-April 3, 2022).
    Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021).
    Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 12-December 20, 2013).
    Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961).
    Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.1060