The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of August 19, 2022

Thangka with Bejeweled Buddha Preaching

1648

Nepal

Color on cloth

Overall: 109.5 x 82.5 cm (43 1/8 x 32 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1973.69

Location

not on view

Provenance
1973–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
"The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78. Mentioned: no. 199, p. 79; Reproduced: no. 199, p. 62 www.jstor.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 297 archive.org
Huntington, John C., Dina Bangdel, and Robert A. F. Thurman. The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 146–149, cat. no. 30
Béguin, Gilles. Buddhist Art: An Historical and Cultural Journey. Bangkok: River Books, 2009. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 253, fig. 6
Exhibition history

Himalayan Gallery Rotation (gallery 239/237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 2, 2015–April 4, 2016).

Sacred India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 5, 1986).

The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (October 5, 2003-January 11, 2004).

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