Cleveland Museum of Art

Padmapani Lokeshvara Seated on the Rock

Date: 700s
Medium: bronze with silver overlay
Culture: India, Kashmir
Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 146000

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Though diminutive, this image conveys a monumental power through the intense expression particular to Kashmiri art. He sits alert in yogic concentration on a lotus pedestal that exists miraculously in a rocky wilderness. His left hand holds the stem of a lotus flower—the main attribute of this bodhisattva of compassion. His generously sized right hand with fleshy palm is in the gift-giving gesture. The tiny figure of Amitabha, the Buddha who sits in meditation in his crown, identifies the image as Avalokiteshvara.

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Credit line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Provenance: ?–1971: (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1971–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH