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Preaching Amitabha with Avalokiteshvara and Manjushri, folio 186 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina)
Leaf: 5.5 x 54.6 cm (2 3/16 x 21 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.301.186.b
Location: Not on view
Description
The red Buddha Amitabha is seated under a tree on a throne in the middle of the upper page; two geese—his animal emblems—perch at the top on either side. A white and red bodhisattva are on either side.This manuscript, consisting of 188 double-sided folios, was calligraphed by a scribe at a monastery in northeastern India, commissioned by a monk from Nepal. Judging from the style of the paintings, they are the work of Nepalese artists.
- ?–1938(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1938–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Pal, Pratapaditya. The Arts of Nepal, Part II: Painting. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. Mentioned: p. 32, reproduced: fig. 11.Hollis, Howard. "A Nepalese Manuscript." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 3 (March 1939): 31-33 Reproduced: p.30; Mentioned: p. 32 www.jstor.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: cat. no. 754 archive.org
- Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 11-August 21, 2022).
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