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Buddha Amitābha with Two Attending Bodhisattvas
- Date
- 1200s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 147934
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The supreme deities that rule over the Western Paradise—Amitābha (阿彌陀 in Chinese), Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin 觀音), and Mahāsthāmaprāpta (Dashizhi 大勢至)—are here enclosed within a circle of light. To secure entry into that paradise for Buddhist followers of the Pure Land sect, one must recite the phrase namo amituofo (南無阿彌陀佛, Homage to the Buddha Amitābha). Here the phrase is repeated 10 times in calligraphy above the figures, reinforcing the need for continual recitation. Each line of calligraphy, which invokes the Buddha's name, emerges from a lotus blossom.
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- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1974: (Nakanishi Bunzo, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1974–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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