Cleveland Museum of Art
Shakyamuni with the Sixteen Benevolent Deities
- Date
- mid- to late 1300s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold and cut gold on silk
- Culture
- Japan, Nanbokuchō period (1336–92)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 120456
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The historical Buddha Shakyamuni forms a triad with the bodhisattvas Fugen and Monju. Sixteen deities who protect the Buddhist scripture called the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra surround them. At the bottom left stands the Chinese monk Xuanzang, noted as a Buddhist scholar and translator of religious texts from India, including the Great Wisdom Sutra. This painting would have been the main icon for ceremonial readings of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Upson, 25th Anniversary Gift
- Provenance
- ?–1941: Mrs. Henry S. [Mary Southworth] Upson [1859–1944], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1941–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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